The Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, Thursday, said its operatives destroyed 32 illegal crude oil refining camps in Ekeremor and Southern Ijaw Local Government areas of Bayelsa State.
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Spokesman of the JTF, Lt. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu in a statement in Yenagoa, said the troops drawn from 343 Regiment and 5 Battalion of Sector 2 of the Task Force also destroyed five open wooden boats used by oil thieves in Lagosgbene, Sangana, Okigbene, Akamubugo, Forabagbene and Shigogbene communities in the said councils.
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In a similar operation in Delta State, he said troops of 3 Battalion of Sector 1 of the JTF and NNS Delta (a maritime component of JTF) anti-oil theft patrol teams discovered and destroyed 29 illegal crude oil distillery camps.