The Joint Military Task Force codenamed "Operation Pulo Shield" yesterday announced that a series of intelligence reports on the activities of oil thieves and operators of illegal refineries in the Niger Delta region showed the use of communities as a human shield for a massive attack on oil pipeline, movement of stolen crude , refining and shipping of oil in the region.
According to the JTF, communities visited in the Southern Ijaw and Ogbia local government councils of the state showed high level of complicity and involvement of the traditional heads and institutions in the provision of cover to oil thieves in their domain with the discovery of high volumes of stolen crude and refined products stored within the indicted communities.
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