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SUMMARY
The thrust of this study has been a historical discussion of the challenges of oil bunkering in the Niger Delta region and the role of Nigerian Navy in curbing these challenges. The Nigerian Navy’s role was specifically looked into from the period of the year 2000 to 2019. As already established in this work, Oil theft became an accepted norm of militant activities long before the Amnesty Programme of the Federal Government (Umaru Musa Yar’adua’s Administration) to be specific. More so, that there have been increasing worrisome report of incidence of illegal oil bunkering and unauthorized local refineries in the Niger Delta. This observation is akin to that of Ikelegbe which reported that; “Oil theft or Bunkering siphons off the life blood of the Nigerian economy for private gains. Observably, one would have thought that with the deployment of Nigerian Navy Force by the Federal Government of Nigeria to guide, protect and carry out surveillance on all government facilities both on land and in the creeks, the problem of oil thefts and pipeline vandalism would become a thing of the past.”1 Ironically, the incidences of oil theft and bunkering in the area seem to be more trending and appear unabated.
