Following claims by prominent Niger Delta leader Asari Dokubo some cabals in the military are involved in oil theft in the region, the Nigerian army has rected
Dokubo who made the assertion when he paid a courtesy visit to President Bola Tinubu in Abuja yesterday vowed bring the menace to an end in the region.
However, reacting to the statement by the former agitator, the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu said the Nigerian army had been vigorously engaged in the fight against illegal oil bunkering, oil theft, illegal oil refining and other sundry crimes in the region with positive results.
Nwachukwu who debunked Dokubo’s accusation during an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.
According to him, the results of military achievement is evident in the increase in daily oil production from an abysmally dwindling output in the past.
He insisted that the Nigerian army had zero tolerance for any compromise on the part of its troops and would not condone any act of economic sabotage.
Furthermore, he pledged that the army authority would not spare any black sheep in its fold if identified.
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