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A Federal High Court sitting in
Port Harcourt
has convicted one Suleiman Abdul for illegal dealing in Petroleum
product. Justice U.N Agomoh convicted the accused and sentenced him to two
years imprisonment on each of the two-count charge preferred against him by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The court also ordered that the
truck with registration number XA 179 MWA containing thirty three thousand
(33,000) litres of petroleum product be forfeited to the Federal Government
Suleiman was arrested on January 16, 2007 by
the Anti-Vandalization Squad of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,
River State Command and subsequently handed over to the EFCC for further
investigation and prosecution.
Upon his arraignment, one of
the charges preferred against him reads, “that you Suleiman Abdul, and one
Charles now at large on or about the 16th day of January, 2007 at
Eleme-Obigbo Expressway, Port Harcourt within the jurisdiction of this honourable
court did conspire with one another to commit felony to wit: dealing in
Petroleum Product without appropriate licence and thereby committed an
offence contrary to Section 3 (6) 0f the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap M 17 of
the Revised Edition ( Laws of the Federation of Nigeria) Act 2007 and
punishable under Section 1 (17) of the same Act”.
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