Property belonging to Atlantic Worldwide Refinery Restricted meant for a refinery undertaking positioned in Okpoama, Brass Native Authorities Space of Bayelsa State, has been looted by the neighborhood youths.
Experiences reaching our correspondent stated some youths invaded the positioning of the corporate and vandalised two 40ft containers that housed some valuables resembling furnishings, armoured cables, tanks, and different gadgets.
A neighborhood chief, who pleaded anonymity, advised journalists that the gadgets which had been allegedly stolen have been sighted in lots of houses, together with the houses of some distinguished chiefs of the neighborhood. He added {that a} roll of armoured cable, which was recovered, was later offered on the order of one of many chiefs.
“It’s shameful to notice that a number of the furnishings discovered their solution to the houses of revered leaders of the neighborhood,” the supply stated.
When contacted, the Regent of the neighborhood, Chief Paul Briggs Suobagha, debunked the allegations as deceptive and false.
“It isn’t true. The corporate has safety guarding its facility, and they’re in the very best place to reply for the lacking property,” he stated.
Additionally, the Youth President of Okpoama, Seyefa Ben-Basuo, in his response, stated, “I can’t give any info as a result of that website was looted earlier than I turned youth president.”
Recall that the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) arrested the previous Govt Secretary of the Nigerian Content material Growth and Monitoring Board, Engineer Simbi Wabote, and arraigned the Managing Director of Atlantic Refinery Restricted, Akintoye Akindele, over an alleged $35 million fraud in 2024 final week.
In an analogous growth, a barge belonging to Zed Vitality Restricted, homeowners of the Brass Petroleum Product Terminal (BPPT) being constructed, has been recovered by the Brass Division of the Nigeria Police Pressure after it was allegedly stolen and offered by some neighborhood leaders, together with chiefs.
The suspects embrace: Ebinabo Albert, a neighborhood safety chief within the firm; the Chairman of Okpoama Kingdom Peace and Safety Committee, Chief David Okpokoro; His Highness Ingo Ikele, who allegedly masterminded the prison act; and James Doumo, who was stated to have bribed the safety personnel on the undertaking website. Others are: Bobo and Biggie, who had been stated to be sons of the Regent and Chairman of Okpoama Kingdom Council of Chiefs, Chief Paul Briggs Suobagha.
The BPPT website is a few hundred meters from the positioning of the Atlantic Worldwide Refinery.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Bayelsa State Command of the Nigeria Police Pressure, ASP Musa Muhammed, stated the matter remains to be beneath investigation.
