This community policing had so far, yielded results in many areas of Lagos State. Indeed, Owoseni said that residents were always calling his phone numbers on myriad of issues, but mostly on activities of cultists. Community policing has once again, yielded fruit.
This time, result was recorded by policemen attached to the Festac Police Station, Amuwo- Odifin, Lagos. They were able to halt vandals, midnight raiding of oil pipelines at Aquatira Area, 1st Avenue by 12 Road.
They recovered 3,600 litres of stolen Petroleum products stored in polyethylene bags. The fuel was recovered at the weekend after the policemen received information about the activities of the vandals from members of the community.
A team of policemen from Area ‘E’ Police Command and Festac Police Station raced to the scene. Before they got to the scene, the vandals had disappeared. In their hurry to leave, they abandoned some of the stolen product.
A police source said: “Community policing led to the breakthrough. These vandals used to pump the fuel all through the night. They use nylon that’s like a transparent leather bags, to store the fuel. Each of the nylon can take a 100 litres of fuel. They tie and put them in sack.
They’ll tie the sack to a jetty. We were alerted and we also alerted the Marine Police.” A member of the community said that by the time policemen got to the scene, the vandals had already escaped through the waterways, leaving about 3,600 litres of the stolen petroleum product behind. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), Dolapo Badmos, said: “The fuel was stored in 36 large polyethylene bags of about 100 litres each.
They were further concealed in sacks. Marine Police evacuated the fuel from the area. Efforts are ongoing to arrest the vandals.” Similarly, a gang of militants suspected to be oil pipeline vandals on Tuesday, abandoned three tankers laden with fuel at Ogijo area of Ogun State.
The 99,000 litres of fuel, was suspected to have been siphoned from a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) oil pipeline installation in the area.
The Zone 2, Lagos/Ogun, Police Public Relations Officer, Adebowale Lawal, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said: “The oil thieves were conveying the product to their usual flash points of dispensing and sales when policemen, attached to Ogijo Police Station, got a tip-off and went after them.”
According to Lawal, the vandals on sighting the policemen took to their heels. They abandoned the three tankers laden with fuel. Lawal said: “The Assistant-Inspector- General of Police (AIG), in charge of Zone 2, Bala Hassan has ordered that the vandals be arrested. The police are already on their trails.”http://newtelegraphonline.com/police-halt-midnight-raiding-pipelines/
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