Gwamcee News
The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has commended the Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike for donating 14 gunboats to the corps in the state.
The gunboats was donated by the governor to fortify security in the state.
According to the commandant, the gunboats will go along way in fighting criminality especially the act of sabotage in the oil industry which has taken its toll on the socio economic development of the Niger Delta Region.
In a statement signed by the Corps’ Director of Public Relations, DCC Olusola Odumosu, and made available to National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP, the commandant said the gunboats could not have come at a better time than now that NSCDC has renewed its onslaught against vandals, oil thieves and illegal oil bunkers who are mostly armed with heavy weaponry against security agencies as a lead agency in the protection of critical national assets and infrastructure.
The CG stated that the support given by the state governor to the Corps has boosted the morale of the Anti Vandal Squad of the Rivers State Command and spurred them into more actionable operations for greater success.
He Affirmed that the Corps would leave no stone unturned in ensuring that vandals and other economic saboteurs are wiped out completely from the oil sector.
The Corps helmsman charged the Rivers State Commandant, Abu Abdu Tambuwal and all officers and men of the Command to make judicious use of the gunboat in achieving better results in the protection of government assets and infrastructure and to equally maintain it in such a way that the State government will be interested in doing more for the Corps.
Briefing his officers and men at the State Command after the Commissioning of 14 Ballistic Gun Boats donated by the Government of Rivers State, the Commandant, Abu Abdu Tambuwal vowed to sniff out all those involved in Crude oil theft, illegal dealings in Petroleum products and vandalism of oil pipelines in Rivers State and charged the personnel to be unwavering in this new resolve.
Tambuwal stated that the Rivers State Command under his watch had arrested 11 Suspects in connection with illegal dealings in Petroleum products, impounded 8 Trucks and 3 Cars within his one month assumption of Office.
He restated that every suspects arrested would be prosecuted according to the extant laws, and urged the good people of the State to collaborate with the NSCDC by giving credible Intelligence that would help to nip in the bud all operators of illegal refineries and economic saboteurs in Rivers State.
