NSCDC Arrest Fuel Marketer For Products Diversion

A petrol station manager, Kasim Lamido, has been arrested by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), for diverting 26,000 litres of petrol from New Nyanya to another location in Akwanga, Nasarawa State.


According to an official of the NSCDC, Yusuf Ayinde, a Chief Superintendent of the Corps, the manager took delivery of 40,000 litres of petrol meant for his station but discharged only 13, 3000 litres, from one out of the three compartments in the truck and diverted the remaining 26,000litres to a station in Akwanga where it is suspected to be sold at a higher price.


The suspect would be charged to court by the Civil Defence Corps after ongoing investigation.

The latest arrest validates NNPC’s position that the activities of a potent petroleum products smuggling and diversion syndicate is contributing immensely to the shortage being experienced in some cities and which poses a challenge to the efforts by the corporation to sanitize the fuel supply and distribution chain across the country.