KENYAN BUILDING COLLAPSE NEAR NAIROBI KILLS SIX PEOPLE. (PHOTO).

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 Kenyan building collapse near Nairobi kills six people The collapse of an unfinished eight-storey building in Kenya has killed six people. The structure fell on Friday morning in Syokimau on the outskirts of Nairobi. Construction workers were reportedly at the site when the building’s uppermost concrete slab gave way, bringing down part of the structure, according to a preliminary report from Nairobi City County’s emergency team. The report did not establish why the slab failed. The Kenya Red Cross initially reported that three people had been rescued and one person was reported missing. TV reports later said that five people had been pulled alive from the rubble and taken to hospital. The emergency report said the number of workers present when the building fell had not been confirmed, leaving open the possibility that others were trapped. Firefighters and specialist rescue teams were continuing to search for survivors.

NAF AIRCRAFT INTERCEPTS FLEEING OIL THIEVES IN SPEEDBOAT, DESTROYS ILLEGAL OIL REFINING SITES AT WILCOURT IN RIVERS STATE, ELIMINATE TERRORISTS IN MUNYA LGA NIGER STATE. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.

 


NAF AIRCRAFT INTERCEPTS FLEEING OIL THIEVES IN SPEEDBOAT, DESTROYS ILLEGAL OIL REFINING SITES AT WILCOURT IN RIVERS STATE, ELIMINATE TERRORISTS IN MUNYA LGA NIGER STATE



As the activities of oil thieves and economic saboteurs become sophisticated, so also have the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) and other security agencies re-strategized in order to checkmate their activities and be ahead of their game.  In most cases, oil thieves in the Niger Delta region have continued to find new ways of concealing their overhead tanks used in storing stolen crude oil products from busted pipelines just as they have continued to infuse the use of fast speed boats to convey their stolen goods. Unfortunately for these criminals, the NAF and other security agencies have also up their game with modern technology and hardware that enables them to detect and deter the activities of these enemies of the State.  


In Wilcourt, a riverine settlement within the creeks of Niger Delta region becoming notorious for illegal oil activities, the Air Component of Operation Delta Safe sighted and destroyed 3 Illegal Refining Sites (IRS) with a total number of 7 overhead tanks concealed under thick mangrove vegetation. About 5 Km downstream, 4 boats were also sighted moving southwards with suspected illegally refined products. The boats were subsequently attacked and destroyed. While heading back, the crew spotted a speed boat with 5 suspected oil thieves fleeing the area. Upon sighting the aircraft, the criminals increased speed, hoping to evade the aircraft. The air component then pursued the speedboat until they arrived at the blocking zone of ground troops where they were arrested.


Similar successes were recorded in the Northwest following a tip-off of terrorists hibernating at Dandunu after rustling cattle from communities around the Kuchi-Kapana axis in Munya LGA of Niger State. The NAF subsequently deployed its air assets to scan the area which led to the interception of the terrorists on 9 motorcycles leading the rustled cattle. In several passes, the motorcycle-riding terrorists were struck by the aircraft, and most of them eliminated in the process.


The feedback from locals around the location have so far been positive, with most of them being able to recover the rustled cattle and returning to their livelihoods.


Edward Gabkwet 

Air Vice Marshal 

Director of Public Relations and Information 

Nigerian Air Force 


30 June 2024.

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