Hyacinth Chinweuba
The Lagos Police Command has seized illegally bunkered petrol by suspected hoodlums.
According the state Police public relations officer, DSP Bala Elkana, a team of officers on anticrime monitoring of Canoe area of Ejigbo, led by Sgt Sunday Joseph suspected a Fiat Bus with two contrasting colours: painted in Lagos commercial colour at the front while the rest is painted in blue.
On sighting the policemen, the three (3) occupants of the bus jumped down and fled in different directions.
The policemen pursued them and caught up with one of them, named Wasiu Oyewole of house number 3 Oluwaseti street, Agodo Egbe, Lagos, while the remaining two (2) jumped into the carnal and escaped. The suspect confessed that he and others loaded the FIAT Bus with registration NO LND 825 BC with multiple sacks laden with Petrol.
“He claimed further that NNPC pipeline was bust in Owutu area of Agric in Ikorodu where the products were loaded while their intended sales point is Ijegun. Efforts are being made to track down other accomplices who jumped off the vehicle on sighting the police” Elkana said.
Meanwhile NNPC officials have been contacted to decant the product.