Anambra State Police Command has paraded six suspects who allegedly conspired and diverted Forty feet container load of Aluminum ingot worth over ten million naira. The suspects were paraded at the Central Police Station, Onitsha, Anambra State.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Haruna Mohammed, revealed that the products belong to Lloyd Industries Limited Sango Ota, in Ogun State, and was loaded in a Mac Truck driven by one Suleiman Abdulkareem aged forty years, who hails from Ibarakpa Local Government Area of Oyo state.
According to the report, The driver allegedly conspired with five others and trans-loaded the goods in two other Trucks.
He said the products were brought to Scrap Market at Mbanefo Street Onitsha,where the buyer, Mr Godswill Ebirim, aged fifty-five years, from Okwe, in Onuimo Local Government Area of Imo state, bought the goods at two-point-five million naira and was arrested at Zenith bank, Port Harcourt Street, where they went to collect the money.
The other four suspects were a forty eight year old Abdullahi Umar, from Jabiri in Funbtua Local Government Area of Kastina State, Alhaji Aliyu Idris aged Fifty two years and a native of Matsai, Katsina state, Mr. Dickson Ada aged Fifty five years, a native of Usenu in Ago Local Government Area of Edo State, and Mr. Friday Kihodaro, aged forty two, from Uhehode in Esi Council Area in Edo State.
Briefing newsmen, SP Haruna said that the suspects and the goods were brought to the Police station where they confessed to the crime, while the trucks carrying the goods were impounded for further investigations and necessary action.
He added that following intelligence report, the police operatives attached to Central Police Station, Onitsha, intercepted the two trucks conveying Aluminum ingot used in manufacturing aluminum products like pots, spoon among others, revealing that the real owners of the product have been identified.
The Police PPRO advised members of the public to be cautious and always check the legality of the businesses they engage in. In their reactions, Mr. Abdulkareem an official driver of Lloyd Industries in Ogun State, confessed that he conspired with Abdullahi Umar and Alhaji Idris to divert the goods meant to be conveyed to Apapa Wharf, while Godswill Ebirim, the prospective buyer also confessed that he financed conveying the goods to Onitsha with four hundred thousand naira.
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