NSCDC arrests three suspected petroleum smugglers in Delta

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps has arrested three suspects conveying illegally refined petroleum products along the Ughelli-Port Harcourt Expressway in Delta State.

The State Commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Iskilu Akinsanya, stated this on Saturday while parading the suspects at the Command headquarters in Asaba, the state capital.

Akinsanya said the command had received a mandate from the force headquarters to double efforts at securing critical national assets, to coordinate activities of private security outfit, especially in the area of information gathering and to protect the lives and property of the citizenry.

He said, “When we inquired from them the content and then the papers, it was discovered that it was an illegally refined product.