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How NSCDC Nabs NNPCL Truck Driver For Diverting 10, 000 Litres Of Fuel

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Afeez Adegbola, a Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, truck driver, has been arrested by the Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.

He was arrested for allegedly diverting 10,000 litres of petrol belonging to the company.

The state commandant of the corps, Mr Igbalawole Sotiyo, disclosed this while parading the suspect and his two motor boys on Saturday in Osogbo.

Sotiyo explained that the suspects were arrested on Friday at about 8:21 pm with the NNPCL truck.

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

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He said that the waybill indicated that the product was meant to be delivered at NNPCL Mega Station in Osogbo.

Sotiyo said that 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.

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

The corps commandant said that the suspects had made a confessional statement that the content of 40,000 litres was meant for 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.

Sotiyo described the act as economic sabotage and stealing.

 

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