By ABIRHIRE THOMAS
The Nigeria Army has hit the rightful target from information from the Tompolo Tantita Security Outfit, which reported crude oil theft from one of the OML 30 pipelines belonging to Heritage Energy Oil Ltd.
According to Tantita, its informant said that the Ekakpamere community had a lot of oil thieves, who bring in tankers both in day and night times to collect crude from a dug pit with main oil pipeline track of OML 30 belonging the Heritage Energy oil.
The soldiers, who were on ground before the arrival of the Tantita Security Outfit, made a good chase of the oil thieves after they had loaded their truck brought to the bush for the purpose.
They had run away on sighting the soldiers leaving the loaded truck behind.
The Nigerian Army drove the the tanker out of the bush to save crops belonging to innocent farmers, which were close to the scene of crime, before it was set on fire on road side, after the head was cut off from the crude loaded tanker, to make operation unuseful for the escaped economic criminals.
The cryde loaded tanker, unburnt, was handed over the Tantita Security Outfit
According to our reporter, while the soldiers were still in the bush, another oil thief drove another tanker in to carry out oil theft bit had been arrested as at the time of filing this report on Thursday.
