By; RAYMOND TEDUNJAYE, Lagos
Efforts of the Lagos Command of the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at ensuring zero tolerance against oil pipeline vandalism has yet recorded success with the interception of 19 Sacks filled with Siphoned Fuel product.
Our correspondent gathered that the exhibit were intercepted by operatives attached to the Badagry Division of the command at about 4.50am on Sunday.
According to report, suspected vandals had siphoned the product identified as Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called petrol from a vandalized pipeline at Gbrovimen, opposite Afo Badagry waterways, in the Badagry area of the state.
It was learnt that they were waiting for a boat to evacuate the sacks suspected to an unknown destination when the operatives stuck.
They were said to have fled and abandoned the exhibits on sighting the operatives led by the Divisional Officer, Chief Superintendent of Corps ( CSC ) Akinyemi Rasheed Ayodeji.
The Command’s public relations officer ASCI Abolurin Oluwaseu made the disclosure in a release made available to journalists.
According to the release, the Commandant immediately ordered the Anti – vandal unit of the Command to evacuate the suspected products back to the Lagos State Command, Head Quarters, in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, in a bid, to carry out further intelligent investigation on the matter and find a lasting solution to such ugly economic sabotage in the area.
The Commandant said that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ( NNPC ) office in the state has also been contacted for proper evacuation of the products because of the highly inflammable nature of it.
Meanwhile, the Commandant has also directed that the security of lives and property and the protection of oil pipelines in the Badagry Division and other oil pipeline areas, in the state be beefed up immediately, especially during the end of the year season like this, where some people may want to exhibit their desperation for illicit money at all cost, against the patriotic and collective development of the nation’s economy.
Eweka seized the occasion to further reiterate the Command’s readiness and commitment to ensuring a zero tolerance against oil pipeline vandalism and other form of criminalities in the state.
He further assured the good people of Lagos and the Government of Lagos State of his unflinching commitment and dedication towards sustaining the already established peace and security in the state.
The Commandant promised that the Corps will continue to work assiduously and laboriously, with the government and other security services or agencies and stakeholders in the state, to further proffer solutions to any form of security challenges that may want to raise their ugly heads, especially in the yuletide seasons as it were.
