Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Man Arrested For Attempting To Burn Petrol Station

The police in Lagos State, western Nigeria, have arrested a young man
identified as Dada Ajibo from Niger Republic for attempted arson.
He
was said to have been found under a car parked at a filing station in
Akowonjo with a lighter while attempting to set the car ablaze and cause
explosion in the area.
The incident caused serious commotion in the area Tuesday because the
residents were apprehensive that Ajibo might be a member of terrorist
group, Boko Haram, bombing and killing people in northern Nigeria.
Ajibo
was arrested and detained at Gowon Estate Police Division where he is
being interrogated for allegedly attempting to set the filing station
ablaze, along with three other accomplices now at large.
The
middle aged man was found under a red Volkswagen Golf car with a razor
blade and lighter beside Oando Filing Station located at 170, Akowonjo
road by Cele bus stop, Akowonjo.
While he was attempting to cut
the fuel pipe with the blade under the car, the residents who suspected
him alerted a mobile policeman guarding a nearby bank who arrested him.
The
policeman found on him two Niger Republic passports, a razor blade and a
lighter. This gave rise to suspicion by the residents that he wanted to
cause explosion and destruction in the area.
The manager of the Oando filing Station where the incident happened,
Mr Rabiu Omoniyi, said that the man went under a parked Golf car without
the knowledge of the owner with lighter and a blade, ostensibly to burn
the car which could have set the filing station and other companies
around the area ablaze.
The policeman who arrested him said when
the suspect attempted to escape, he threatened to shoot him, which made
him to stop running.
He said he alerted the DPO at Gowon Estate who sent his men to take him to the station.
“He confessed that he was an illegal immigrant from Niger Republic,” the policeman said.