A loaded petrol tank truck
was intercepted on Friday December 25th of December 2015 at Ogijo in
the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Ogun State Police Command
attached to the Sagamu Police Division, have intercepted a truck loaded with
33,000 litres of petrol, allegedly stolen from vandalised pipelines of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
The state Police Public
Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the policemen, who acted on a tip-off,
moved to the area where the pipelines were located and caught one Elochukwu
Byron, and others, now at large, in the act of siphoning petrol into the truck
with number plate, KTU 760 XC.
Adejobi, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police, said the suspect was assisting the police in their
investigation to apprehend the fleeing members of the gang and reveal more
information about their activities.
Adejobi shed more light
that the suspect and the exhibits would be transferred to the Department of
Criminal Investigation and Intelligence in Eleweran, Abeokuta, for further
investigation.
He said, “The Commissioner
of Police in the state, Abdulmajid Ali, has once again put all officers and men
of the command on their toes to make sure that pipelines and installations are
adequately protected, particularly during this fuel crisis, as many of the
hoodlums will want to seize the opportunity to perpetrate their criminal act of
economic sabotage.”
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