NSCDC denies arresting IPMAN member, parades oil thieves

Operatives of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Rivers State Command on Marine and Land Patrol, have arrested three suspects with a wooden boat and two vehicles laden with illegally refined petroleum products.
[ad]
Parading the suspects at the Ogbogoro Exhibit Jetty in the state at the weekend, the state Commandant, Michael Ogar, said the command impounded a large wooden boat laden with about 24,000 litres of illegally refined petroleum products- Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK).

Ogar disclosed that the suspects loaded the illegally refined products in cellophane and concealed them in sack bags.
[ad]
He said: “The products were carefully arranged in the wooden boat such that a layman would assume it as a passenger boat, but based on intelligence, the suspects: William Chen (29), male, and Emmanuel Uriah (27), male, were arrested.

Ogar, reacting to a publication on September 5, 2022, which accused the agency of arresting an oil marketer for exposing extortion by its officers, described the report as misleading.

He said: “It is imperative to point out that the report about the purported arrest circulating in the media space was not only misleading but a grandiose attempt to denigrate the service and the positive impact it is making in society.”
[ad]