Eze said on Saturday in Umuahia at a news briefing that four additional suspects arrested would also face prosecution with the 14 others as soon as investigations were concluded on their activities.
He gave names of the four suspects as Peter Ugochukwu, 28, Uzoma Anyim, 48, Winner Onwuegbu, 28, and Udoka Nwokorie, 27.
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Eze expressed worry on the increase of pipeline vandalism in the area since the Port Harcourt Refinery resumed pumping of petroleum products to Aba and Enugu depots.
“Between the second week of August to date, no fewer than 18 suspected vandals have been arrested by this command along Osisioma area,” he said.
Eze said the suspects usually perforated the pipelines where they fix nuzzles with which they siphon the products into containers.
He said more than six trucks and different sizes of jerry cans, eight cars and buses, were confiscated during the period.
He warned oil marketers in the state against patronising pipeline vandals, saying the command was still on the trail of those that bought products from suspected vandals.
He attributed the act of pipeline vandalism to greed among the youths, warning that anybody caught would be made to face the full weight of the law.
Eze gave the assurance that the command under his watch would not compromise in the discharge of its legitimate core mandate.
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