Police Intercept Truck Carrying Engine Oil

The Nigeria Police Force recently intercepted a truck carrying engine oil worth N15.8 million allegedly stolen by suspected armed robbers.

Mr Jaiyeoba Joseph, the spokesman for the Police Command in Lagos State, who confirmed this to newsmen on Sunday, said that two of the nine suspected robbers had been arrested along with four receivers of the goods.

According to Joseph, the goods, which belong to Conoil Plc, were recovered in Kano State at the weekend by operatives of the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), led by Mr Abba Kyari. He said that the truck was hijacked on its way to Kwara State by the suspects around Ojuelegba and moved to Mushin both in Lagos, where the goods were transferred into another truck belonging to the first receiver.

Joseph said that the goods were later transported to Kano, while the hijacked truck was dumped at Iyana Ipaja.

The police spokesman explained that the fourth receiver of the goods, based in Kano, bought the goods at N10 million.   He said that the suspected robbers had perfected a fake way bill which they used in convincing the receiver in Kano about the genuineness of the goods.

He that the SARS was still searching for the remaining seven members of the suspected armed robbers.