Troops in the region have sustained pressure on economic saboteurs and other criminal elements which has significantly restricted the oil thieves’ freedom of action.
The Nigerian military says it has destroyed 40 illegal refineries and arrested 21 oil thieves within the Niger Delta region in the last two weeks.
Benard Onyeuko, the director of defence media operations (DMO), who disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, also informed that the troops of ‘Operation
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