Uyo — No fewer than 163 persons have been arrested and 60 convicted by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps for oil theft, pipeline, power holding Company of Nigeria and Nigerian Telecommunications Limited cables vandalisation in the last six months in Akwa Ibom State.
The Commandant, Akwa Ibom State Command, NSCDC, Mr. Pedro Ideba, disclosed yesterday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital at a one day stakeholders' sensitisation forum on anti-vandalism to be held in Uyo on September 4. Explaining the danger of oil theft and vandalisation in country, Ideba said the sensitisation forum with theme, "Oil theft, vandalism, internal insurgency: A bane on national development/protection of critical assets and infrastructure," was aimed at addressing the situation.
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