 Now, as part of effort to combat illegal bonkering, which has been identified as a form of economic sabotage, the Nigerian Navy has handed over a vessel arrested with over 2 million liters of crude and 14 crude to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for further investigations and prosecution. The executive officer of the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base, Bonny, Commander Ibeque Obadi, said the vessel, which was flying a Nigerian flag with 14 crew members, including 13 Nigerians and one Ghanian, was arrested on the 5th of January of sure, Bonny, fairway boy, with its automatic identification system switched off for eight days. On E-Smart, a representative of the EFCC, Aras Sashaka, said investigations would be conducted to a certain the offences leveled against them while prosecution would follow immediately. M.T. Praewan was arrested off-shore Bonny, fairway boy. The world so was flying Nigerian flag with 14 crew, 13 Nigerians and one Ghanian. Preliminary investigation revealed that the vessel was laden with 2 million 458,350 liters of crude oil while she had 10,000 liters of automatic gas oil in her service tanks as her bunker. Taking over ceremony, we will subject the vessel in question and the crew members to a new tour investigation and ensure that everyone involved is... Ibeque also handed over a vessel empty Saibu to the Nigerian maritime and safety agents in the Masa for further investigation and appropriate sanction, saying it was arrested for automatic identification system infractions and an expired in the Masa certificate. The vessel was arrested for automatic identification system infractions as well as expired in the Masa certificate. Based on Eastern Regional Control Center intercept, the vessel was tracked in Nigerian waters on 19 November 2021 from when she went stealth and was later detected 23 nautical miles south of Lome. Precisely, it was also noted that the vessel was seen entering Nigerian Exclusive Zone on 15 February 2022 and anchored at Anchorage Prohibited Area in Lagos on 16 February 2022. When they accepted me last month of 2020, so as I said my offense was my AIS is offed, so which I let them to understand that my AIS is off due to my machinery that's filled because my AIS has been powered by the generator, so when my generator has been down, so the AIS is no more working at that time. But when I rectified the problem, then the AIS come up back, so which I explained to them, so I have a failure of AIS, which I later. He mentioned that the vision of the current chief of naval staff, Vice Admiral of Al-Gambo, to deploy all necessary measures to curb economic sabotage remains the focus of the Nigerian Navy. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.