NAVY SEIZES BOAT WITH 800 JERRYCANS OF PETROL
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In close proximity to the Benin Republic border, the Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft Patrol Team, collaborating with the Forward Operating Base Badagry, revealed that they had apprehended a wooden boat containing more than eight hundred jerrycans of thirty-litre Premium Motor Spirit.
The arrest was made on Friday, according to a statement signed on Saturday by Sub-Lieutenant H. A. Collins, the NNS Beecroft Base Information Officer.
According to the statement, the boat was 80 nautical miles offshore when it was intercepted by the NNS Beecroft Patrol Team working with the Forward Operating Base Badagry. The commander, Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga, was cited as saying as much.
He said, “In a feat of maritime security prowess, under the ongoing Operation Water Guard, the Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft Patrol Team in collaboration with the Forward Operating Base Badagry, under the strategic leadership of the Commander Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft and Maritime Component Commander, Operation AWATSE, Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga, successfully intercepted a huge wooden boat, laden with over 800 jerricans of 30 litres each containing products suspected to be PMS.
“The boat was sailing seaward 80 nautical miles from the shore very close to the boundary between Nigeria and Benin Republic. The arrest was made in the early hours of Friday, January 19, 2024.”
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