Meanwhile, the Nigerian Navy has redeployed Captain Aliyu Usman, the officer alleged to have carried out the assault.
An Ilaje youth, Gbenga Omogbemi, accused of stealing $9,000 from Navy Captain Aliyu Usman, the Commanding Officer at the Igbokoda Forward Operation Base, is still alive but remains in critical condition.
SaharaReporters learnt on Saturday that Omogbemi is alive, contrary to earlier reports of his death.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Navy has redeployed Captain Aliyu Usman, the officer alleged to have carried out the assault.
SaharaReporters in October reported that some officers of the Nigerian Navy had been accused of destroying properties, setting fire to a bakery, killing two persons and raping women in Obe Adun, Obejedo, and Obe-nla all in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The Ondo State governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa is from Obe-Nla, one of the affected communities.
According to multiple sources, the Nacal officers had invaded the communities on Sunday, October 19.
The officers were accused of also constantly and forcibly having carnal knowledge of women in the communities.
"If they approach the females and you do not agree with them, they would make sure they have carnal knowledge of you forcibly," a source told SaharaReporters.
In the most recent incident, it was stated that some naval personnel led by their Commanding Officer, (CO) of the (FOB) Igbokoda, Commander Usman invaded three communities, Obejedo, Obe-adun and Obe-nla all in the Ilaje Local Government.
"They came into the community on 19th of October, they destroyed properties worth millions of Naira. They set fire to a bakery and carted away over N14million which is proceeds from sales in the bakery."
"OBE JEDO, OBE ADUN, OBE NLA residents were harassed, humiliated, their houses, some burnt and few destroyed, 2 lives lost, 10 missing," another source had recounted to SaharaReporters.
Multiple sources also stated that at least three women were molested and "raped" by the military men.
They accused the Nigerian Navy of lacking evidence to prove claims of illegal refinery operations in the affected communities.
"They must show the gallons they recovered and the the equipment of the site, have you ever seen where bunkery equipment or refining equipment are stationed within the town where people live."
"Most times in Delta State, such inflammable products are refined inside the bush of whatever area it's stationed. These navy personnel have no defence to this issue and they should be treated accordingly," a resident who spoke to SaharaReporters under anonymity for fear of victimisation had stated.
They also accused the Nigerian Navy of "calling petty trade in petroleum products in a terrain without fuel station" as illegal refinery operations.
SaharaReporters also understands that the chairman of a group, Ilaje Omuro Connect, Barrister Babatunde Omobone was arrested and taken away by the Ondo State Police Command and later handed over to the Department of State Services.
Sources noted that his arrest was due to his staunch defence of the affected communities rights.
"It is our passionate appeal that proper investigation be carried out and the law should be allowed to take its course," the petition had concluded.