The Oyo State Government-established security outfit, Operation
Burst, has arrested the manager of Segad Ventures petrol station in
Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Mr Jacob Ayinde, in connection with 82 pieces of
25-litre kegs of petroleum suspected to have been siphoned from a
vandalised pipeline belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Company
(NNPC).
Briefing journalists at the office of the security outfit at Agodi
area in Ibadan, the Commander in charge of Ogbomoso axis which was
recently inaugurated, Captain Cliff Wilcox, said that a commercial
Nissan bus with registration number AP 30 MAP was trailed BY Operation
Burst’s operatives who were patrolling the town, at about 1.45a.m.
after a tip-off.
Wilcox said the bus was driven to a petrol station within Ogbomoso
metropolis but on sighting the operatives, the occupants ran away.
“We discovered that 59 25-litre kegs had been emptied of their
contents while 23 kegs were still filled with petroleum products
suspected to be premium motor spirit, otherwise known as petrol,” he
stated further.
Other items recovered from the suspected vandals were an 18-seater
bus, one Honda motorcycle and two Techno handsets which were taken to
the stste headquarters of the outfit in Ibadan.
Wilcox said that the manager of the petrol station, Mr Ayinde, was
arrested the following day, adding that the suspect would be handed to
the police for further investigations in order to verify the source of
the petroleum products.
“Apparently the products were stolen, but investigations will verify
if indeed they were sourced from vandalised pipelines,” Wilcox said.
During an interview, the arrested manager told journalists that the
products were brought to him by a stranger and that he paid N180,000 for
90 kegs, saying that he had hoped to make some gains from the business.
He claimed that he did not know the name of his business partner or
his residence, adding that the man just came to his office to tell him
that he was into petroleum business.
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