Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Oil Bunkering Wednesday sealed up a popular petrol station along the Badagry Expressway for dealing on petroleum products siphoned from vandalised oil pipelines in Lagos State.
Journalists gathered that operatives of the Intelligence units of the Task Force received information that a 45000-litre tanker truck had siphoned Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from a vandalised pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Alimosho area of the state.
Police sources said the task force led by SP Ugowe Igbinazaka, trailed the tanker truck after it left the loading point to a filling station, where they found it discharging its content into the station’s storage tanks.
The source added that the operatives swooped on the truck and apprehended its driver, the director of the fillings station, Shola Afolabi, its manager, Siyanbola Sunday and its supervisor Adeniran Yemi.
It was gathered that all the suspects have made confessional statements confirming that the suspects have been dealing on vandalized petroleum products for long.
