Army Destroys Illegal Refining sites , Recover 90,000 stolen petroleum products in the Niger Delta
….As N120bn fake products destroyed in six months by NAFDA
Editor Reporting
The 6-division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state, says it has destroyed 20,000 illegal refining sites and recovered 90,000 stolen petroleum products in the Niger Delta.
In a statement on Sunday, Jonah Danjuma, the division’s assistant director of public relations, said the military also arrested several suspects.
He said the raids were conducted in collaboration with other security agencies in Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, and Delta states.
Danjuma said acting on intelligence regarding illegal activities around Buguma in Asari-Toru LGA, troops swiftly responded, uncovering a tarpaulin storage reservoir and a wooden boat holding over 37,000 litres of stolen condensates.
In another development, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, says it has destroyed over N120bn worth of seized products from July to December 2024, in the six geo-political zones and the Federal Capital Territory.
This was contained in the Yuletide message of the Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, to Nigerians, in a statement signed by the agency’s Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola, on Sunday, where he assured Nigerians that adequate measures had been put in place to safeguard their health before, during and after the Yuletide season.
Adeyeye emphasised the need to eat safe and stay safe during the festive period.
She reiterated the need for Nigerians to always procure food and drinks in outlets with identifiable addresses and locations to ease the agency’s track and trace obligation, adding that medicines and packaged food products that do not have NAFDAC number should be avoided. And when a product is too cheap, its most likely to be compromised.
Adeyeye said officers of the agency’s Investigation and Enforcement Directorate would continue the ongoing mop-up of substandard and falsified medicines and unwholesome food items from the markets across the country.