POLICE, NSCDC MEN CLASH OVER 33,000 LITRE PETROL TANKER

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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Ogun State command said some of its men were attacked by policemen while escorting a 33,000-litre impounded petrol tanker to their office around 7am on Friday.

NSCDC spokesperson in the state, Mr. Kareem Olanrewaju, said the policemen who were four in number and led by one Inspector Charles, claimed that they were from the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Team. According to Olanrewaju, the police team leader threatened to kill an NSCDC official and said they had been directed not to allow NSCDC men to carry out any anti-vandalism duty.

He said, “As he requested to see who authorized our men to carry out such duty, they forcibly stopped the truck and dragged an NSCDC man out of the tanker.

“All explanations regarding the arrest by the NSCDC official proved abortive. When other NSCDC officials tried to come to the rescue of their colleague, they overpowered them with reinforcement from men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the area, who shot sporadically in the air to scare them away.”

Reports have it that the NSCDC official was handcuffed and whisked away by these men.

According to Olanrewaju, NSCDC officials had accosted the 33,000-litre tanker loaded with petrol along the Ejinrin Road, Ijebu Ode,Ogun State and impounded it.

Some irregularities were said to have been discovered in the bill of laden, which made the NSCDC officials impound the tanker.

They were said to be taking the tanker to their office at Ijebu-Ode when they were accosted by the policemen.

According to Olanrewaju, the NSCDC division sent reinforcement after clarifying from the police commander in the area who said the men were not from his office.

Olanrewaju said the NSCDC state command would take up the matter at the corp’s Abuja headquarters.

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