While handing over the suspects to the EFCC, Commodore W. O Kayoda, Commander of NNS Pathfinder said that, the suspected oil thieves were arrested on 6 February, 2017 by the Nigerian Navy Ship's patrol team deployed for Anti-Crude Oil Theft / Illegal
Oil Bunkering operations around Taraba Jetty, Borokiri, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
«The so called military
operations code named «
OPERATION PULO SHIELD» in the Niger Delta region who our partners in the
oil bunkering activities, because presently without been told the former JTF Commander, Major - General Emmanuel Atewe who was arrested by the EFCC last week over pipelines surveillance contract amounts to N8.2 billion in the region, is an eye opener to the federal government that the military are fully involved in illegal
bunkering in the area.