

Oil Theft ‘Magic’: 11,400 tons of stolen crude in seized supership suddenly became water
Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan (rtd) assumed office as the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) barely two years after Nigeria returned to democracy in 2001 and retired in 2005. Afolayan closely worked with then President Olusegun Obasanjo to tackle the cartel stealing the nation’s crude oil on a massive scale. In this interview conducted in his Osi country home in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State home, the retired naval chief reveals the people behind crude theft in Nigeria, saying they are not only powerful but also dreadful.