We ‘settle’ soldiers to smuggle oil – Suspected vandals

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Three suspected vandals have been arrested for engaging in oil bunkering around the creeks in the FESTAC Town area of Lagos State.
 The suspects – Johnson Igadu, 25, Daniel Poku, 25, and 26-year-old Sterling Longlife – said they carried out the operation after allegedly getting assurances from some military officers that nothing would go wrong.

 The suspects, who were paraded on Tuesday at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps’, Lagos State Command headquarters in Ikeja, said their kingpin, identified as Soji, was still at large.
They alleged that the soldiers colluded with them in the operation.
 
It was gathered that Soji had on May 21, 2016 engaged the suspects to convey 10 barrels of fuel in a boat from 7th Avenue, FESTAC Town, to a place called Ghana village, saying he had “settled” the military men monitoring the waterways in the area.
It was learnt that the gang had scaled through with the fuel at two checkpoints reportedly manned by soldiers before luck ran out on them.

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