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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Just about one week after it said it would work to legalize pop-up, illegal refineries, the Nigerian military destroyed 13 of the facilities in the Niger Delta. During the operation to destroy the illegal refineries, two soldiers died in clashes with the crude robbers.
Major Abubakar Abdullahi, a military spokesman, said troops “discovered and destroyed 13 illegal refineries” while on patrol in the Iyalama Adama axis of Rivers state. The two soldiers were killed in the Ijawkiri general area, in Rivers state, he said.
Makeshift refineries, usually hidden in oil-soaked clearings, support tens of thousands of people locally.
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