NSCDC arrests NNPCL truck driver for diverting 10,000 litres fuel

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) truck driver, Afeez Adegbola, for allegedly diverting 10,000 litres of petrol belonging to the company.

The NSCDC Commandant in Osun State, Mr. Igbalawole Sotiyo, disclosed this while parading the suspect and his two motor boys on Saturday in Osogbo.

He said the suspects were arrested at 8:21 p.m., on Friday with the NNPCL truck.

The commandant said the suspect loaded 40,000 litres of petrol at Pinnacle Distribution Depot in Eleko, Lagos State.

Sotiyo said: “The waybill indicated that the product was meant to be delivered at NNPCL Mega station in Osogbo.

“Following a tip-off, officers of the command trailed the truck with registration number AGG 959 XA and discovered that only 30, 000 litres of fuel were delivered at the NNPCL filling station.

“The driver was arrested while discharging the remaining 10, 000 litres at TEMPOLA filling station in Ikirun, Ifelodun Local Government area of the state.

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“The suspects had made a confessional statement that the whole content of 40,000 litres was meant for the NNPCL mega station in Osogbo, but was directed by his company to deliver only 30,000, while the remaining 10,000 should be taken to a private filling station in Ikirun.”

He described the act as an economic sabotage and stealing.

“It is an act of sabotage and stealing against the state. They are saboteurs and anti-state.

“NSCDC is using this medium to warn all the stakeholders involved in the distribution of petroleum products nationwide that anyone caught sabotaging the government would be apprehended and prosecuted.

“NSCDC uses this medium to request NNPCL Managers/Supervisors nationwide to work with the NSCDC to ensure saboteurs are brought to justice,” he added.

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