Eluwade said that the adulterated AGO being conveyed in cellophane bags were concealed with palm kernel shells to beat security checks. He said that on March 17, operatives of the Anti-Vandal Squad along Calabar-Itu highway, apprehended two suspects conveying 100 cellophane bags of suspected adulterated AGO. He added the product was being conveyed in an open bucket articulated vehicle with Registration Number, FGE 680 ZS.
”The suspect verbally threatened a resident, Blessing Obot, who was having a driving lesson at the park and forcefully collected N10,000 from her,” he said. The commandant said that the recent breakthrough was as a result of the command’s commitment to crack down on oil theft and other illegal activities in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. ”We have intensified operations against vandals in all parts of the state,” he said.