He made this disclosure at the public hearing currently being conducted by the House of Reps Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources Down Stream and Naval Committee.
According to Pentirin, efforts by the military to check this illegal bunkering activities have not yielded the desired results because of the complexity of the activities.
He said most of the badges used by the oil bunkerers are not registered.
To this effect whenever security personnel attempt to make arrest, the oil bunkerers will leave the badges, jump into water because the badges are not registered it become difficult for security operatives to track the owners.
He stated that to some extent the security operatives are hadicapped as they do not have sufficient equipment like ship to effectively and efficiently patrol the water ways. This position was also buttressed by the Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Ola Saad-Ibrahim.
As at the time of filing this report, the probe committee had dissolved into a closed session.
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