CHINEDU WOSU
YENAGOA
The Central Naval Command, Bayelsa state has impounded a barge laden with over 800 metric tons of illegal refined Automated Gas Oil (AGO) at Odekiri Creek in Santa Brabra River in the Niger Delta region.
This is as the command insisted that it would continue to arrest vessels involved in any maritime crimes in the Central command area.
The Flag Officer Commanding Central Naval Command, Rear Admiral Apochi Suleiman made this assertion when the patrol team of the Forward Operating Base FORMOSO arrested a barge christened MV NEW VICTORY
He stated that the barge was impounded on the night of 27 January 2016 following a coordinated intelligence by the Nigerian Navy.
Earlier, the Commanding Officer of the Forward Operating Base FORMOSO, Captain Musa Katagum, said the arrest was a tremendous one..
He said the 800 tons which is 800,000 litres is adequate to fill more than 24 trailers of 33,000 litres each. The barge is 50 metres in length, 12 metres width and 2.6 metres depth.
In a statement by the command spokesman, Lt Commander Edward Yeibo made available to newsmen, the Command warned that criminal minded people operating in the maritime environment should desist from criminalities or face the full wrath of the law.
The statement insisted that the Flag Officer Commanding reiterated that the Central Naval Command will continue to make illegal businesses unattractive to criminal minded individuals operating in the maritime environment.
