According to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), two trucks carrying 75,000 liters of suspected contaminated automotive gas oil (AGO) have been impounded in Akwa Ibom State.
Mr. Eluyemi Eluwade, the NSCDC Commandant of the State, said this on Tuesday while briefing reporters at the Command’s exhibition yard in Uyo.
Eluwade reported that four other individuals were detained in relation to the crime.
He claimed that while attempting to combine two goods to create AGO, the suspects were apprehended on Monday at a filling station along Abak Road in Uyo Metropolis.
He thought that the thieves’ and vandals’ actions might prevent the economy from expanding.
“With the support of our Commandant General, Dr Audi Abubakar, our team of anti-vandals went out on Sept. 25, and arrested four suspects, impounded two trucks in a station where they were trying to blend two products to form AGO.
“The first truck contained 45,000 litres of suspected Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK), and the second truck contained 30,000 litres of suspected Marine Diesel Oil, called MDO.
“Some other items recovered at the site included 13 jerry cans of 25-litre dissolver chemicals, four plastic hoses, two pumping machines, one generator, one electric pump and two flow metres.
“All these things are now in our custody and the investigation is ongoing. These sets of people are trying to put two products together to form AGO, according to our preliminary findings,” Eluwade said.