Men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) yesterday arrested a 60-year-old mother of 15 in Bayelsa State over offences bordering on crude oil theft.
The suspect, Victoria Sorkibulor, popularly called Mama Militant, was arrested at Fish Town, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area by a special team of the NSCDC.
She was paraded at the headquarters of the NSCDC in Yenagoa alongside two of her workers and two other suspects nabbed by the command for pipeline vandalism.
Sorkibulor is said to be notorious for pipeline vandalism and illegal refining of petroleum products.
Her workers were said to have led the security operatives to her hideout at Fish Town where she was caught and brought to Yenagoa.
Parading the suspects yesterday, the state commandant, NSCDC, Mr. Desmond Agu, said the suspects were nabbed for unlawful possession of adulterated and illegally refined petroleum products.
He said 20 drums of illegally refined kerosene and Automated Gas Oil (AGO) were seized from the suspects.
He explained that Sorkibulor was apprehended shortly after her workers were rounded up while evacuating their illegally refined product in a large wooden boat.
