The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps -NSCDC has just discovered an illegal petroleum product depot in the Federal Capital Territory -FCT, Abuja.
The NSCDC spokesman, Mr. Olusola Odumosu, confirmed the findings through a post he shared on the organization’s Facebook page on Sunday, October 30.
The illegal oil dump, according to Odumosu, was found and sealed by the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad.
Additionally, the operatives uncovered 54,000 liters of suspected vandalized, illicit, refined, and adulterated Automotive Gas Oil -AGO, a pumping machine, one generator, two surface tanks containing the illegal products, two empty surface tanks, and four empty trucks at the depot.
Meanwhile, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, had on Saturday, October 29, made the declaration that Nigeria loses at least 700,000 barrels of crude oil to thieves every single day.
Sylva had proclaimed the Petroleum Training Institute -PTI, graduation ceremony in Effurun, Delta State, and has also assured Nigerians that the Federal Government was already working towards addressing the matter.
