The Inspector General of Police Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism, Force Headquarters Annex, Lagos, has arrested one of their informants and three other suspected pipeline vandals at the Sagamu area of Ogun State.
The operatives of the task force also impounded a fuel tanker with registration number XP453SMK, laden with 33,000 litres of petroleum products.
The police informant who was identified as 40-year-old Ismailia Adetoro, was arrested alongside his accomplices 39-year-old Raufu Odoniyi, 22-year-old Oyedeji Salim and 25-year-old Tobi Olalekan.
Confirming the arrest, the Officer-in-Charge of the task force, Friday Ibadin, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, said the operatives had received intelligence report about the area where the vandals were siphoning Petroleum products from one of the pipelines of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
He said the Sector Commander, DSP Onaghise Osayande, detailed his men and they ambushed and arrested the suspects after they had loaded the tank of the 33,000litter fuel tanker.
Ibadin said one of the suspect; Ismailia popularly known as commissioner had been on their wanted list for a long time as investigation revealed that the fact that he was a police informant, did not deter him from dabbling in pipeline vandalism.
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