Landlady arrested for connecting water well to NNPC Pipe in Lagos
A 59-year-old landlady, Mrs Floyinka Ayinda has been arrested
and detained at Idimu division for her alleged role in vandalising NNPC
pipeline in Isheri Olofin area of Lagos State, western Nigeria.
Ayinda allegedly connected a pipe inside
her water well to NNPC pipeline and has been siphoning petrol illegally for the
past three years.
The incident happened at KML 1, LASU
Road, Iyana Odo bus stop in Isheri Olofin, a suburb of Lagos.
The incident was discovered by officers
of the Anti-Vandalism Intelligence Unit Team B set up by Inspector General of
Police, Solomon Arase. They acted on tip-off.
Ayinde allegedly admitted after her
arrest that for the past three years, vandals has been operating in her house
and she reported to the NNPC officials but they did not do anything about it.
She denied her involvement in the act
and said she made a mistake for not informing the police because she relied on
NNPC who asked her not to worry.
Ayinde revealed
that the NNPC officials use to come with a team and she did not ask to know
whether they were really officers or not.
When our reporter visited the scene, the
house was deserted by the tenants.
Some jerrycans used for storing scooped
petrol were all over the the premises before the task-force struck.
Armed officers of the task force were
seen manning the house and its environs.
Efforts to speak with them proved futile. They directed our
reporter to their boss, CSP Valentine Olumese in Abuja for comment.
At the time of filing this report,
Ayinde was still detained at the station where she was writing her statement.
Source said, she might be flown to Abuja
for further interrogation.
PM News
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