A man identified as Kenneth Sunday, has been arrested for allegedly attempting to bribe the Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder in Rivers State.
Sunday allegedly attempted to bribe the navy commander with N700,000 to release his wooden boat and some drums of illegally refined diesel.
A naval officer was said to have asked Sunday to identify and inspect the consignment among many others that were displayed at the naval jetty.
The commander who waiting at the jetty, ordered his arrest and immediately paraded him and the money before journalists who had just returned with the naval crew from an operation against illegal oil refining.
According to Channels Television, the suspect denied that he was at the Navy barracks to bribe the commander and claimed that the boat he inspected was not his, but that of a friend.