NSCDC impounds truck, arrests 4 suspects with adulterated product in Bayelsa

Nathan Tamarapreye, Yenagoa

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) in Bayelsa on Tuesday said it arrested four suspects and impounded a truck laden with adulterated petroleum products.

Mrs Christiana Abiakam-Omanu, Bayelsa Commandant of the NSCDC who announced the development in a statement issued in Yenagoa attributed the feat the reinforcement of the command’s intelligence unit.

She said that preliminary investigations revealed that the operators of the petrol laden truck had neither license nor documentation from any authorised petroleum products depot adding that the suspects would be prosecuted as soon as investigations were concluded.

“The four suspects were arrested on the 9th of May 2021, at about 1700hrs, based on a tip-off and a 45,000litres capacity Oil Tanker with registration number AHD671XR, about to discharge the product in a filling station along Ammasoma road in Yenagoa LGA.

“At the point of arrest and during the interim investigation, no waybil, license or other authority papers were presented to show for the genuineness of the product and as well as authority to deal in petroleum product,” Abiaka-Omanu stated.

She reiterated the rezolve of the command’s determination to deal with anyone involved in act of operating illegal refineries, dealing in petroleum product without due license, vandalism, oil theft and other related offences, will be made to face the music.

She urged members of the general public to continue to volunteer useful information to help nip the  crimes in the bud.