Gunmen Shoot NSCDC Personnel Guiding Shell Facility Dead In Rivers

Unknown gunmen have reportedly attacked a Shell Gio Manifold and shot dead an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Rivers State on Saturday.

The NSCDC personnel were guiding the manifold when the incident happened at the early hours of Saturday.

BIGPEN reports that no arrest has been made but the Commandant General NSCDC, Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, has ordered a massive manhunt for the perpetrators of the dastardly act.

The Commandant General condemns this dastardly and cowardly act which resulted in the death of Chief Corps Assistant Godwin Mbula, a statement signed by the Media Assistant to the Commandant General, Ekunola Gbenga said Saturday evening.

According to the statement, the incident happened in the early hours of Saturday when gunmen invaded Shell manifold located at Gio and shot at the victim.

He said the gunmen suspected to be oil bunkerers had gone to the manifold known as Gio to siphon oil, but were resisted by the NSCDC men guiding the manifold.

The Commandant General said the nation is facing challenges with unrepentant vandals, adding that the Corps was also giving them sleepless time to reduce to the lowest minimum nefarious activities of vandals in the across the nation.

“Despite the attacks on our officers on daily basis, we have vowed to bring to an end to oil theft, bunkering activities and attack on all government critical infrastructures in the country”, Gana said.

He charged his men on the need to work closely with other sister agencies for effective policing, survellance, intelligence and information gathering, with a view to ensure that the protection of lives and properties of citizenry is guaranteed.

He stressed that security agencies cannot work and achieve result without the cooperation of the people, adding that, it will take collective efforts of all security outfits to bring the perpetrators of this unrest to book.

The NSCDC boss, further called on Nigerians to support government and security agencies by providing them with helpful information as the public owes it a duty to the security bodies to identify criminals in the community.