"I am not aware of the incident that you are talking about. Let me check and get back to you," he had told TheCable. However, he later confirmed the attack and said the command lost three policemen to the attack.
Men of the Operation Delta Safe, OPDS, have arrested three suspected crude oil thieves and seized a vessel and two tankers used in carrying out the illegal activities in Rivers State.
A Nigerian businesswoman cries out in pain after her shop was emptied of wigs worth millions of naira for the 4th time by thieves. The heartbroken woman cried out in pain as she recorded her shop which was plundered by the unknown thieves.
Under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, the scale of recoveries from corrupt elements in the past three years by the country's anti-graft agencies is testament that the administration's extensive
According to him, the troops also arrested 14 suspected oil thieves, rescued 68 hostages in the South-South, and denied oil thieves an estimated N1.212 billion from the illicit business.
Confirming the incident, the Ogun State Police spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, while addressing the newsmen in Abeokuta on Saturday, disclosed that three suspects have been arrested in connection with the crime.
Please you all should stay woke this festive period so that no one will feel the pain that i am feeling now.These day thieves wear suit and tie with matching shoes and briefcase
Of the four, three have been concluded in favor of Capt Enisuoh. The last one is presently ongoing before Honourable Justice Faji of the Federal High Court, Lagos.
Edward Buba, in a statement on Friday, said the troops also arrested 66 suspected oil thieves and recovered 1,932,245 litres of stolen crude oil, 432,150 litres of illegally refined AGO and 3,500 litres of DPK in the week under review.
He said that the burglars made away with the complainant's laptop, three Samsung cell phones, valued at N610,000, cash and some other valuable items The prosecutor said that all efforts by the police to recover the stolen items proved abortive
Before now, when we went to police stations to report them, some policemen would say they were not thieves. That was in 2018. They later graduated to notorious thieves.
A statement issued by the Command's PPRO, DSP Bright Edafe said preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects are notorious and unrepentant thieves who specialise in burgling churches, shops, and homes.
"If the six people mentioned (in first looters' list) are thethieves, what happened to the rest, especially those that crossed over to the ruling party?" he queried.
The bizarre incident has captured the attention of netizens who expressed a mix of shock and amusement. According to @datchughuy's Twitter post, he fell prey to a robbery gang three weeks ago in Festac.