The Nigeria Army has announced the destruction of 74
illegal refineries in a raid of the Niger Delta area of the
country as an addition to its many successes in the
fight against militants this week .
ThisDay reports that the director of army public
relations, Col. Sani Usman, in a statement on Friday,
September 9, said the troops of 2 Brigade Nigerian
Army, while conducting a field exercise code-named
“Operation Crocodile Smile”, discovered and destroyed
74 illegal refineries within 48 hours.
Also destroyed, according to Usman were quite a
number militants’ and kidnappers’ camps in various
parts of Rivers and Bayelsa states. The military used
swan buggy and other specialist equipment to achieve
the target.
Usman said that earlier on Wednesday, September 7,
the troops of Sub-Sector Bravo had, in response to a
tip-off, on the presence of suspected kidnappers at
Akupoku community, carried out a raid of the location.
The team also raided another community called Ke
which is at the mouth of the Atlantic ocean where they
discovered and destroyed an illegal refinery.
“The troops recovered and destroyed three large cooking
pots and 20 tanks filled with illegally refined Automated
Gas Oil (AGO),” he stated.
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