Nigeria, May 19 -- Governor Nyesom Wike has accused the Nigerian Army of running illegal bunkering in Rivers State.

The governor accused Jamil Sarham, the grand officer commanding of 6 Division in Port Harcourt, of raising a team of soldiers to damage oil pipelines and steal petroleum products.

"The GOC has his own team now doing oil bunkering for him because he wants to be chief of army staff," Mr Wike said while receiving a team of military personnel from 'Operation Delta Safe' on Wednesday. "If you give that kind of person chief of army staff, what kind of security would we have in this country?"

"He cannot be removed here because they know the role he is playing for them: sabotaging our security architecture," the governor added. ...