 A Nigerian Navy ship, a big raft arsed and rested a Ghana registered vessel in multi-tank in Swift Mercury, suspected of crude oil theft. The vessel was found at 174 nautical miles of the Nigerian coast, approximately 220 kilometres into the Republic. Now the vessel had 13 crew members, including 12 Nigerians and 1 Ghanaian. The vessel was carrying around 2 million litres of suspected produts, without approval according to Western Navy Command's flag officer commanded. On the 25th of February, we detected on our radar a dark ship, meaning she hid all forms of investigation. As far as 174 nautical miles off the coast of Nigeria, that's about 320 kilometres, heading westward towards Benner Republic. We dispatched NNS Abba to go and investigate the contact. We subsequently followed the investigation by dispatching NNS Sokoto to double up the search and interdiction. On arrival at the spot, we found an empty sweet mirror fully laden with about, I would say, a little less than 2 million litres of product with the characteristics of crude oil and she had no naval approval on board. Another point of interest is that this ship is reportedly stated by the crew owned by a Ghanaian and it's registered under a Ghanaian company with one of the crew being Ghanaian. So with Vinalaris, we've done a good job, we've gotten people involved in the theft and that includes the managerial level of the company that owns the ship. We just have one more person to pick up and he has abandoned, absconded, he's outside Nigeria and we are waiting for him. 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.