Police Intercept Loads Of Illegal Bunkered Petroleum Products
CYRIACUS IZUEKWE
The visibility of policing paid off as the police in Ejigbo Division led by CSP Olabisi Okuwobi intercepted loads of illegally bunkered petroleum products in Lagos.
P.M.EXPRESS gathered that the police anti-crime monitoring patrol team deployed by CSP Okuwobi on 20th March, 2019, at about 12.30 pm while on duty unmasked the syndicate at Canoe area of Ejigbo.
The police operatives led by Sgt. Sunday Joseph suspected a Fiat bus with two contrasting colours: painted in the Lagos commercial colour in front while the rest was painted in blue. On sighting the policemen, the three occupants of the bus reportedly jumped down and fled in different directions.
According to an eye witness the policemen pursued them and caught up with one of them, one Wasiu Oyewole, who resides at Oluwaseyi Street, Agodo Egbe, Lagos, while the two other suspects were said to have jumped into the carnal and escaped.
P.M.EXPRESS gathered that Oyewole had confessed that he and his accomplices loaded the Fiat bus with registration number LND 825 BC with multiple sacks laden with substance suspected to be PMS products. He was said to have revealed further that NNPC pipeline was busted in Owutu area of Agric in Ikorodu where the products were loaded while their intended sales point was Ijegun area of Lagos.
When our correspondent went to Ejigbo Police Division to speak with the DPO, she was said to have gone to the State Command for the CP’s briefing.
However, police sources confirmed the incident and said that both the vehicle and petroleum products had been recovered as exhibits.
The suspect, Oyewole, was still detained at the police station where he was undergoing interrogation while the police were said to have intensified efforts to arrest other suspects now at large.
