Thousands of drums and gallons of various volumes hitherto used for stealing Nigeria’s fuel are now laying idle in Kusuri, Garoua, Gidar and Marwa, among other towns in Cameroun and Chad republics.
PRNigeria gathered that the gallons and drums are no longer used by smugglers as reservoirs and warehouses for crude oil stolen, and exported to Nigeria’s neighbouring countries.
The development, according to a two-minute video obtained by PRNigeria, started over a month ago, after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed and ended the subsidy regime, in Nigeria.
In the video, thousands of abandoned drums and gallons could be seen on a vast expanse of land in Kusuri, a town in Cameroun.
In the narration of the video was the voice of a man who described the situation in Hausa language, saying that just like in Kusuri, there are thousands of gallons and drums which oil thieves from Nigeria have been abandoned in Garoua, Marwa and Gidar.
“All these gallons and drums are now useless. This particular field in Kusuri where these gallons and drums are kept is over 100 hectares.
“Some of the drums and gallons, as you can see, are kept under built shades. We are with Tinubu and no to subsidy,” the narrator said.
It is not clear if any security agent who, Nigerians say, are complicit in these fraudulent activities, have been questioned, neither is there any word from the security agencies or the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) on the development.
Ordinary Nigerians believe that issues of oil theft, illegal bunkering, banditry, kidnappings are being fuelled by security top Chiefs.
