Acting on a tip off, soldiers have smashed at least 74 bootleg refineries.

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In what Nigerian military authorities are calling “Operation Crocodile Smile” troops have deployed specialist equipment to seek out and destroy  illegal refineries and kidnappers’ camps in various parts of Rivers and Bayelsa States.

No arrests have been made because the kidnappers had fled the area.

Illegal refining is worth several billion dollars a year in a country where very little of the financial benefit of producing 2,5 million barrels of oil daily manages to trickle down to the three-quarters of the population living below the poverty datum line.

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