Tompolo intercepts massive vessel loaded with illegal crude oil in Delta, Rejects N25m bribe -

Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) had recently awarded pipeline surveillance contract to Tantita Security Services Limited .
It was gathered that Tantita Security Personnel on Thursday, October 7, 2022 successfully arrested a crude oil tanker, MT Deinmo, with International Maritime Organisation (IMO) number 7210526, loaded with an unspecified quantity of crude oil at the Escravos River in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state.

In addition to the ship, eight (8) crew members were also apprehended by the Tantita Security personnel.
One of the security personnel who was part of the operationl said that, they got a tip off that a ship was loading at the Escravos axis. The Tantita security personnel went to the place and got the ship arrested.

The Tantita security personnel further added that he was offered a bribe of N25m to let the ship go but he turned down the

Tantita Security Services Limited by the owned by High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, has intercepted vessel loaded with illegal crude oil in Delta rejecting N25 million bribe by the owner of the vessel .
Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) had recently awarded pipeline surveillance contract to Tantita Security Services Limited .
It was gathered that Tantita Security Personnel on Thursday, October 7, 2022 successfully arrested a crude oil tanker, MT Deinmo, with International Maritime Organisation (IMO) number 7210526, loaded with an unspecified quantity of crude oil at the Escravos River in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state.
In addition to the ship, eight (8) crew members were also apprehended by the Tantita Security personnel.
One of the security personnel who was part of the operationl said that, they got a tip off that a ship was loading at the Escravos axis. The Tantita security personnel went to the place and got the ship arrested.
The Tantita security personnel further added that he was offered a bribe of N25m to let the ship go but he turned down

On the capacity of the ship, he explained that the ship is 1,500 metric tons and had on board eight all Nigerian crew members.
While noting that the captain confessed that they came in from Lagos and that if they were not arrested, the ship would have sailed back to Lagos..
It was gathered that the intercepted ship has been handed over to the Nigerian Navy on Saturday.
Chief Ebipade Kari, the Operational Head of Tantita Security Services Limited and the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to Tompolo who led the operation that intercepted the ship gave a graphic description to GbaramatuVoice of how the suspects offered him a bribe of Twenty Five Million Naira (N25m) to let the ship go but he turned down the offer.
Giving details of what happened on that day, he said: “We got a tip off that a ship was loading at the Escravos axis.
The Tantita security personnel went to the place and got the ship arrested’’.
He explained that the ship is 1,500 metric tons and had on board eight all Nigerian crew members.
According to him, “While I insisted that the crew must be taken to Oporoza in Gbaramatu Kingdom, where Tantita operational office is located. Their boss was begging me through the captain of the ship to offer me a bribe of N25m which he promised to deliver in dollars, so that I can let the ship go. But I turned down the offer’.
It would be recalled that team of Tantita Security Services led by its Managing Director, Engr. Kestin Pondi, on Friday, took security operatives and oil industry leaders, including Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Mallam Mele Kyari, among others to site of the discovered illegal oil pipeline deftly plugged into the Trans-Escravos pipeline