By: Felix Ikpotor
As part of efforts to curtail the transportation of illegally gotten crude oil in and around his council, chairman of Eleme council in Rivers State, Confidence Deko has dug a ditch cutting the road to a major waterfront where illegally refined petroleum product is allegedly being ferried to other parts of the state.
A statement by Lekien Mene Kanavura, chief press secretary of the council said Deko led a team of security operatives and some members of his cabinet last Saturday to Goi waterfront where an excavator was deployed to cut off the road leading to the waterfront from where stolen oil is pumped into waiting trucks and dispatched to different places.
According to the statement, “Deko made it clear that he was acting in the best interest of Gokana people to use legitimate means to stop these oil thieves from using Gokana as a route for stolen oil and other economic sabotage activities”.
He also explained that digging a ditch across the road was to prevent the oil thieves from driving trucks anywhere close to the water front to aid easy pumping of stolen oil from barges to trucks parked on land.
PHSpectator recalls that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike had a few days ago, given council chairmen in the state a marching order to discover, dismantle and destroy all illegal oil bunkering sites in their domain.
