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NSDC Gets 8 Gunboats To Fight Oil Theft

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The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday, inaugurated eight gunboats for the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) as part of efforts to curb oil theft in the Niger Delta.

The NSCDC’s spokesman, Olusola Odumosu, stated in Abuja that the inauguration took place in Port Harcourt to also end illegal oil bunkering and pipeline vandalism.

He added that Aregbesola said the move became necessary to strengthen the combative capacity of the NSCDC’s Anti-Vandalism Squad in stemming huge revenue losses to the Federal Government in the oil sector.

Aregbesola added that oil theft has been ridding Nigeria of revenues running to millions of dollars annually.

He, however, called on security agencies to shun inter-agency rivalries and synergise to support the fight against oil theft to rid the nation of economic saboteurs.

The minister charged the NSCDC as the lead agency in safeguarding the nation’s critical national assets and infrastructure to use available logistics provided by the Federal Government to reduce crime rate.

“By extension take the war against crude oil theft to the camp of the enemy,” Aregbesola said.

In his remarks, the NSCDC Commandant-General, Ahmed Audi, said the gunboats would boost the morale of the corps in combating crude oil theft.

He reiterated the corps’ determination and commitment to the war against illegal oil bunkering and assured that the gunboats would be distributed to states in the coastal region.

Audi also assured of the corps’ determination to collaborate with the military and other security agencies to end crime.

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