Another set of suspected vandals were also arrested at Ikorodu and Ibafo in Ogun State.
The suspects alleged that soldiers aided them to load their truck in a creek.
The Guardian learnt that the suspects, who were intercepted at Isolo area of the state after siphoning petrol from a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at Ijedodo-Igando area of the state, were heading to Ibadan, Oyo State, when they were apprehended.
They told newsmen that they were mere errand boys who buy and deliver the products at Ibadan.
The tanker driver, Joseph Friday, said he was promised N300,000 to deliver the product at Ibadan.
According to him: “ This is the first time I will be called for this job and I was promised N300,000. It was one Bayo who called me for the job, but they didn’t tell me that it was bunkering. They said I was going to transload product from a faulty truck at that area. But when I got there, I saw a long hose on the ground.
Before they started pumping, I walked in and saw that the hose was connected to a pipeline in that area.
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I told Bayo and a woman, known as Anna, that I was not going to carry vandalised product but they told me that some soldiers were involved and they were going to provide protection for me. With that, I allowed them to load the truck and after loading, they asked me to drive the truck out of the area and when I got to Isolo under the bridge, the police stopped me and asked for the loading documents of the product in my truck and I told them it was with Moshood who was to escort me to Ibadan.”
Moshood, who was arrested earlier before the truck was intercepted, was caught with four different ATM cards belonging to one Ashiru Rasheed Adewale. He said the ATM cards belonged to his brother based in Ibadan, Oyo State, who he claimed owned the stolen product.
He said: “I am a smuggler. I smuggle cars from Benin Republic to various parts of Nigeria. It was my brother Ashiru who introduced me into this business and he is the owner of the product and the Toyota car I was caught with. My job is to escort the vehicle from Lagos after the loading to Ibadan. Yesterday, I was unlucky because the police accosted me when I was waiting for the woman, Anna, to bring N500,000, which we will use for settlement on the way. I don’t know how they identified me but I have confessed to them.”
The Commander of the Task Force, Valentine Olumese, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) who confirmed the incident, said that he intercepted an intelligence report on the vandals’ activities, and he deployed men of his intelligence Team ‘B’, who stormed the area and intercepted the truck while heading to Ibadan.
He gave assurance that the police would soon apprehend all those connected to the operation.
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Source:Guardian
The suspects alleged that soldiers aided them to load their truck in a creek.
The Guardian learnt that the suspects, who were intercepted at Isolo area of the state after siphoning petrol from a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at Ijedodo-Igando area of the state, were heading to Ibadan, Oyo State, when they were apprehended.
They told newsmen that they were mere errand boys who buy and deliver the products at Ibadan.
The tanker driver, Joseph Friday, said he was promised N300,000 to deliver the product at Ibadan.
According to him: “ This is the first time I will be called for this job and I was promised N300,000. It was one Bayo who called me for the job, but they didn’t tell me that it was bunkering. They said I was going to transload product from a faulty truck at that area. But when I got there, I saw a long hose on the ground.
Before they started pumping, I walked in and saw that the hose was connected to a pipeline in that area.
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I told Bayo and a woman, known as Anna, that I was not going to carry vandalised product but they told me that some soldiers were involved and they were going to provide protection for me. With that, I allowed them to load the truck and after loading, they asked me to drive the truck out of the area and when I got to Isolo under the bridge, the police stopped me and asked for the loading documents of the product in my truck and I told them it was with Moshood who was to escort me to Ibadan.”
Moshood, who was arrested earlier before the truck was intercepted, was caught with four different ATM cards belonging to one Ashiru Rasheed Adewale. He said the ATM cards belonged to his brother based in Ibadan, Oyo State, who he claimed owned the stolen product.
He said: “I am a smuggler. I smuggle cars from Benin Republic to various parts of Nigeria. It was my brother Ashiru who introduced me into this business and he is the owner of the product and the Toyota car I was caught with. My job is to escort the vehicle from Lagos after the loading to Ibadan. Yesterday, I was unlucky because the police accosted me when I was waiting for the woman, Anna, to bring N500,000, which we will use for settlement on the way. I don’t know how they identified me but I have confessed to them.”
The Commander of the Task Force, Valentine Olumese, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) who confirmed the incident, said that he intercepted an intelligence report on the vandals’ activities, and he deployed men of his intelligence Team ‘B’, who stormed the area and intercepted the truck while heading to Ibadan.
He gave assurance that the police would soon apprehend all those connected to the operation.
READ ALSO:NDLEA arrested 577 Lagos drug suspects in 2015
Source:Guardian
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