Anambra Police Nab Gang During Attempt To Sell N10m Truck-Load of Goods For N2m

The Anambra State Police Command, Friday, announced the arrest of a six-man gang that diverted a truck loaded with goods worth over ten million naira from Lagos to Onitsha.

A release by the state police public relations officer, SP Haruna Mohammed, and made available to THE WHISTLER, gave the names of the suspects as Suleiman Abdulkareem, a 40 -year old from Lamukpa in Ibadan, Oyo State; Abdullahi Umar, 48, of Jabiri town in Funtua LGA of Katsina State; Aliyu Idris, 52, of Matsai town in Kaita LGA of Katsina State; Godswill Ebirim, 55, of Okwe in Onuimo LGA of Imo State; Dickson Ada, 55, of Usenu in Ago LGA of Edo State, and Friday Kihodaro, 42, of Uhedode in Esi LGA of Edo State.

According to the statement, “On the 27/5/2020, at about 8:am following an intelligence report, police operatives attached to the Central Police Station, Onitsha, arrested the suspects for allegedly diverting a forty-feet container loaded with Aluminium ingots used in making aluminium products valued over N10m belonging to Llyod Industries Limited, Sango Ota, in Ogun State. The suspects trans-loaded the goods in two Styer trucks  with registration numbers ABH 389 XA and UGH 434 XR respectively to Ochanja Scrap Market, Onitsha.”

The statement added that the receiver, one Godswill Ehirim, who was equally arrested, allegedly priced the goods at N2, 5,000,000, and also gave the sum of N400, 000 to transport the goods from Lagos to Onitsha without a waybill.

The goods and the two trucks were recovered and registered as exhibits while investigations were ongoing after which suspects would be brought to book, the release added.