By Gbemiga Olamikan.
The Efforts to rid the Niger Delta region of the activities of oil thieves and pipeline vandals by the NAF and other security agencies will continue until total success is achieved. This was disclosed by the Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, Director of Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force as Air Component of Operation Delta Safe, destroyed illegal oil refining sites at Krakama and Temakiri in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State on on the 1 March 2024. He said the two locations are barely 50 km Southwest of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
Air Vice Marshall Edward revealed that both Krakrama and Temakiri were noted to active on illegal oil refining as the sites were observed with Cotonou Boats sighted nearby with the probable intent to illegally siphon crude oil from the sites. He said the 2 Illegal sites, as well as the boats were subsequently struck, engulfed in flames and destroyed.
He noted that the armed reconnaissance ware also extended to Abisse and Omoma, but only abandoned illegal refining sites were observed.
