BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME
PORT HARCOURT—THE Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, has
destroyed 110 illegal refineries in Rivers State in the last seven months.
Commanding Officer, 29 Battalion of the 2 Brigade, Port
Harcourt, Lt. Col. Olusegun Oladuntoye, disclosed this in Soku, Akuku Toru
Local Government Area of the state, yesterday, when they stormed the area to
locate and destroy illegal refineries.
He said that they use what he termed swamp bugging machines to completely destroy the storage tanks used by oil thieves to store illegal crude, adding that the military operation was part of measures to rid the region of illegal bunkering activities.
He said: “We have destroyed over 40 illegal refineries in
Alakiri, Dutch Island and Victoria Island (in Rivers), and in Soku oil field
areas. We have also destroyed over 70 illegal refineries.
“Early this year, there was a review of JTF strategy, which has to do with the use of swamp bugging (machine) for the destruction of illegal refineries.
“Early this year, there was a review of JTF strategy, which has to do with the use of swamp bugging (machine) for the destruction of illegal refineries.
“So far, the use of the machines has been very effective
in the sense that previously when we destroy and set ablaze illegal refineries,
the metal storage tanks still remained because the metal cannot be burnt.”
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