 Effort to tackle oil theft in the larger Dalton region, the Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Emmanuel O'Gallar said the Navy is paused and taken to war against oil theft and economic sabotage in the Mauritian domain due to criminals. O'Gallar spoke while on a familiarization tool to naval facilities and river states. The Chief of Naval Staff said the Navy will improve its surveillance capabilities and will beam its searchlight more on the creeks and riverine areas where illegal oil burglary activities take place more, while emphasizing that the move will enable the Navy to strike the criminals even before they go into the act. Well, the issue of allegation of involvement of our personnel in oil theft, you know this is the age of social media and many people do not even have the full details, they just put something up there. But if you go through some of those allegations and investigate them, you find out that the basis of those allegations are not unfounded. For instance, somebody will just see a vessel somewhere, he will say the military are involved. He doesn't even know whether there is proper approval from NMPC for that vessel to load. But if we put it on social media that he saw some military men onboard the vessel and that vessel is engaged in illegal bunking without having the correct information. But whatever the case may be, anytime we receive such allegation, we investigate it properly. Vice Admiral or Galaya were reacting to allegations of involvement of personnel. With oil theft, the CNS noted that such claims are unfounded other than that several investigations carried out showed that most of the allegations are not true. But each time we still respond to them by investigating properly so that if there is element of truth in it, we hold the personnel responsible and we apply the law according to the Armed Forces Act. It has a very severe consequence ranging from imprisonment to dismissal which we apply also. We have in such cases in the past an appropriate action we are taking. But I bet more than 90% of those allegations are just based on social media hype without proper background. Then with respect to what we are going to do, we are going to improve our surveillance capability because we want to be able to strike the criminals even before they go into the act. We want to arrest them while they are planning, while they are thinking about it. We don't want to be on the defensive. We want to take the war to the criminals. Among the areas achieved with NAVIL staff visited were on-shore facilities at the Federal Ocean Terminal, Onan Naval Training College, the forward operation base at Boni Majora Basic Training School, the NAVIL Medical Center, the Nigerian Navy Hydrographic School and the Naval Shipyard Limited, Burikiri Import Hackers. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.