By Kingsley Omonobi

WARRI—The Nigerian Navy has arrested more pipeline vandals and recovered suspected pirates vessel four months after pirates hijacked an oil tanker, MT Maximus.

The navy said it also recovered a vessel, MT Dejikun, used by suspected pirates.

A statement by Commodore Christian Ezekobe, Director of Navy Information, said: “In another development, NNS Delta carried out a raid within its area of responsibility. In the raid which was carried out at Ogbe-Igoh community in Warri, Delta State, the Nigerian Navy team destroyed an illegal refinery site and one Cotonou boat containing about 50MT of stolen crude oil and 6 X 15, metal tanks containing illegally refined AGO.

“No suspect was apprehended as they fled the site before the arrival of the Nigerian Navy patrol team.”