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The military high command says it has discovered destroyed no fewer than 23 illegal crude oil refeneries and arrested 60 suspected oil thieves in the last two weeks. The Director, Defence media operation media operations , maj. Gen Edward Buba, disclosed this on wednesday during miltary biweekly press briefing in Abuja. There has been increased clampdown on i oil theft in recent times following  a directive by president Bola Tinubu to security agencies to crush oil theft.Troops equally destroyed 22 illegal refining sites, 15 wooden boats, 34storage tanks, 96 ovens, and 16 dugout pits , while a total of 60 suspected criminals were apprehended within the period.'the burning of the vesssel drew criticisms from some quarters with the House  of Representatives, on Tuesday cautioning the military and other security agencies to desist from burning vessels with nstolen crude.Reacting to the criticisms while fielding question from journalists on Thursday Buba said the burning of the vessel was in line with militarys' standard operating procedure on stolen crude oil.

The military high command says it has discovered and destroyed no fewer than 23 illegal crude oil refeneries and arrested 60 suspected oil thieves in the last two weeks. The Director, Defence media operations, Maj. Gen Edward Buba, disclosed this on  wednesday during miltary's biweekly press briefing in Abuja. there has been increased clampdown on oil theft in recent times following a directive by president Bola Tinubu to security agencies to crush oil theft. the military spokesman said ,Troops of operation Delta safe recovered 367200 litres of crude ,27,150 litres of Auyomotive  Gas oil, 550 assorted rounds of ammunition, 12 cacalibres of weapons, seven empty. The burning of the vessel drew criticisms from some quarter  with the house of Representatives, on Tuesday cautioning the military and order security agencies.