IPMAN had received reports of damaged vehicles and industrial machines from members of the public as a result of suspected adulterated AGO.
PENGASSAN has urged the Buhari regime to revoke the licences of oil marketers selling above the approved pump price of petrol.
The continued efforts by security agencies has led to the confiscation of 20.2 million litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), diesel, says the federal government.
Mr Danmadami said the troops conducted patrol, raids, clearance and swamp buggy operations in the creeks.
According to him, the suspects are notorious for a series of armed attacks on oil vessels, kidnapping of expatriates and illegal oil bunkering in Rivers.
Civil defence operatives in Akwa Ibom apprehended eight suspects and impounded trucks containing 315,000 litres of suspected adulterated diesel.
“Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects are of Nigerian origin attempting to smuggle the AGO to Benin Republic.”
The agency displayed the items to journalists at the Karu warehouse of NCS in Abuja on Friday.
“It will save cost and reduce pressure on the roads.”
