The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have arrested seven suspected oil thieves with over 200 drums of adulterated crude. According to the Cross River state Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr Stephen Lar,  the arrest was made following intelligence report.

He said the command had declared zero tolerance for illegal oil bunkering in the state, adding that the suspects would be duly prosecuted. Also, the Nigerian Navy Ship Jubilee, in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom state seized three truckloads of illegal diesel and arrested six suspects for illegal oil bunkering. Five storage tanks, generators and oil hoses were also retrieved from an illegal refinery in Ikot Ibiok, in the Eket Local Government Area.