By: Felix Ikpotor
Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is now investigating 11 suspected illegal oil bunkerers handed over to it by the Nigerian Navy.
The suspects were handed over to theanti-graft agency last Monday, by the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base, Bonny, Rivers State, after being arrested for suspected involvement in illegal oil bunkering.
Captain B. I Yahuza, while handing over the suspects to the EFCC, for further investigation, disclosed that they were arrested by Naval operatives on September 22, 2020 for conveying 320 drums of product suspected to be illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil (AGO).
The 11 suspects are Indonegesit Effiong Mfon; Asuquo James; Samuel Bassey; Blessed Effiong Bassey; Victor Edet Attah; Edet Okon; Nse Jackson Okon; Innocent Effiong; Njok Okon, Uduak Asuquo and Effiong Asuquo.
Mr. Davis Ani Stanley, a Principal Detective Superintendent of the EFCC, who received the suspects on behalf of the Port Harcourt Zonal Head, Abdulkarim Chukkol, commended the synergy existing between the Navy and the EFCC and assured that the agency would carryout thorough investigation of the case.
