The Ebonyi Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested six persons, while allegedly conveying 90,000 litres of adulterated petroleum products.
The State Commandant of the corps, Terrumun Gbue, told newsmen in Abakiliki on Wednesday that the suspects were arrested on the Abakaliki-Enugu federal highway in the night of Feb. 7.
Gbue said that the products were concealed in two articulated vehicles.
According to him, the suspects could not explain the source of the products, when they were interogated by operatives of the corps.
“We discovered that the waybills attached to the products were fake with one of the articulated vehicles, having two way-bills.
“All the waybills bore dates in 2021” he said, adding that samples of the products had been taken to the laboratory in Enugu for necessary tests.
“Investigations are ongoing to get to the root of the matter,” the state NSCDC boss said.
