{"id":175483,"date":"2025-08-21T22:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:39:21","slug":"oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels","title":{"rendered":"Oil Theft Forces Military to Burn Seized Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has explained why the military resorts to burning vessels used for illegal oil bunkering in the South-South region.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Musa said the decision was prompted by the failure of the legal system to prosecute such cases effectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has to do with the legal system, sometimes legal intercepts. You take it to court, it\u2019s knocked out, [for] one reason or the other. Again, this brings us to the legal system. We have to also review our legal [system] because of some of the punishments and prosecutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe [we should] have special courts that will treat cases as quickly as they are, that is very important. I think we need to review the punishment for offenses also.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cI will give you an example in the South-South. We arrest a vessel. How much is it? They give them peanuts and the vessel is back. That\u2019s why we started burning the vessel. Then, again, people started talking about the environment. So you now [are] caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, burning those items once they are arrested, we started having peace. But as long as we keep on arresting them and handing them over and they go to the legal system, it becomes a problem. It takes a longer time. It takes a longer time to process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further argued that weak legal outcomes discourage troops from risking their lives to make arrests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou go in, risk all your life, make an arrest; for one reason or the other, technical issues, the item is released tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think that soldier is ready to sacrifice himself to go and make arrests again? It becomes a problem. In the Middle East, terrorism cases are serious cases. If your name gets in there, even your family member, nobody will come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has explained why the military resorts to burning vessels used for illegal oil bunkering in the South-South region. Speaking on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Musa said the decision was prompted by the failure of the legal system to prosecute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[11999,254,856],"class_list":["post-175483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-christopher-musa","tag-nigeria","tag-oil-theft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oil Theft Forces Military to Burn Seized Vessels - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has explained why the military resorts to burning vessels used for ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oil Theft Forces Military to Burn Seized Vessels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has explained why the military resorts to burning vessels used for ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-21T21:57:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-21T23:39:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755807116.320486.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"485\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Oil Theft Forces Military to Burn Seized Vessels\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-21T21:57:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-21T23:39:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels\"},\"wordCount\":344,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755807116.320486.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Christopher Musa\",\"Nigeria\",\"Oil theft\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/oil-theft-forces-military-to-burn-seized-vessels\",\"name\":\"Oil Theft Forces Military to Burn Seized Vessels - 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