…impounds truck loaded with ‘stolen’ products
ODAHIEKWU OGUNDE, Yenagoa
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Bayelsa State Command, said its operatives nabbed four suspects and seized a truck loaded with suspected stolen petroleum products.
Bayelsa Commandant of the NSCDC, Mrs Christiana Abiakam-Omanu, made the development known on Tuesday in a statement signed by her.
She attributed the feat to the reinforcement of the command’s intelligence unit, saying that preliminary investigations revealed that the operators of the petrol laden truck had neither licence nor documents from any authorised petroleum products depot.
The commandant said the suspects would be prosecuted as soon as investigations were concluded.
Abiaka-Omanu said: “The four suspects were arrested on May 9, 2021, at about 1700 hours, based on a tip-off that a 45,000-litre capacity oil tanker with registration number AHD671XR, was about to discharge the product in a filling station along Ammasoma road in Yenagoa Local Government Area.
“At the point of arrest and during the interim investigation, no waybill, licence or other authority papers were presented to show for the genuineness of the product as well as authority to deal in petroleum products.”
She reiterated the command’s resolve and determination to ensure that anyone involved in the act of operating illegal refineries, dealing in petroleum products without due licence, vandalism, oil theft and other related offences, was made to face the music.
She urged the members of the general public to continue to volunteer useful information to assist the command in nipping crimes in the bud.