Rogue NSCDC officials shoot, rob tanker driver, others in broad daylight

Two employees of an oil firm in Lagos have been forced to pay heavily for refusing to give N5,000 bribe to some operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Lagos State Command.

The operatives, in a desperate move to collect the bribe, reportedly shot at the victims – a tanker driver, Lawal Amobi, and the company manager, Tolu Oyinloye – while they were trying to escape after being beaten up.

The officials, apart from inflicting injuries on the driver’s face and back, reportedly robbed him of two phones and a sum of N32,000, while the manager was dispossessed of N48,000.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the men had flagged down a diesel-laden tanker driven by Amobi around 6pm on Friday along Wilmer Road, Ajegunle, and asked him to produce his waybill and an operating licence issued by the Department of Petroleum Resources.

Amobi said he tendered the waybill and pleaded with them that the DPR licence was not with him. He told Punch correspondent that when the officials insisted on seeing the licence, he called the manager, who brought a photocopy of the licence.

He said, “But the NSCDC officials were not satisfied with it. The manager explained to them that it was what the company gave us. Their team leader refused to release the waybill and requested N5, 000 from us.”
Punch, May 11, 2017

 

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