In a bid
to serve a notice of warning to pipeline vandals, Soldiers attached to the 144
Battalion, 14 Brigade Ohafia, Abia State have demolished a truck with no
registration number carrying about 33,000 litres of stolen crude oil allegedly
gotten from pipeline through illegal means.
247ureports.com
gathered that the Mack truck was discovered by the soldiers where it was parked
along Udeagbala road located at the Abayi area of the commercial city.
Eyewitnesses
hint that for fear of arrest, the driver and conductor of the truck fled before
soldiers arrived the place.
In an
interview with journalists shortly before the tanker was burnt, Head of the
Pipeline Monitoring Unit, Brigadier General Adeosun Lamidi who was represented
by Capt. Ibrahim Amaya, said the tanker was confirmed to convey crude oil
stolen from the pipeline because the driver and the conductor escaped as the
truck doesn’t have any means of identification.
“We got
information about a truck coming from Rivers State conveying crude oil to
unknown destination. This is one of the so many trucks we have burnt in Aba and
Ukwa area.This is not the first time we are doing this. We have previously set
ablaze two long trucks with stolen crude and two container sized truck with
locally refined crude oil before now. This is the fourth truck we are setting
ablaze this way.”
He warned
that the Unit will continue to burn trucks with stolen crude oil to serve as a
deterrent to others who would want to rent out their trucks for the illegal
business, stressing that the Army have declared a manhunt for the
perpetrators..
“Our Commander, Brig.
General Adeosun Lamidi is a man known for zero tolerance for pipeline
vandalism. As the vandals step up their game, we are also working hard in
conjunction with other security agencies to also outsmart them,” Amaya added.
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