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Nigeria - A Lagos court has sentenced four Nigerians to 24 years in prison for vandalizing NNPC's oil pipelines and stealing petroleum products worth N3.2m, Punch reports.
The four convicts with some suspects still at large had conspired and damaged oil pipelines and stole 33,000 litres of PMS belonging to the NNPC on July 13 along Epe/Ikorodu road in Lagos.
They were said to have been apprehended while selling the stolen products to filling stations in the city.
The four convicts, who are to share the jail term equally, are Yama Abass, Adeleke Adetoro, Olaniyi Tope and Beliya Abegunde.
They were arraigned before Justice Okon Abang last year August along with one Alabi Olayinka, an accountant in a petrol station in Lagos.
But Abang, who convicted Abass, Adetoro, Tope and Abegunde, discharged and acquitted Olayinka, saying there was no evidence to link him to the crime.
Pronouncing judgement, the judge said: "they have no sympathy for this country and the citizens. In spite of all the efforts made by the Federal Government to protect the petroleum pipelines and make petrol to get to everybody with ease, the convicts and their cohorts have made consistent efforts to sabotage and frustrate the effort of the Federal Government,”
#Nigeria #Petrol
The four convicts with some suspects still at large had conspired and damaged oil pipelines and stole 33,000 litres of PMS belonging to the NNPC on July 13 along Epe/Ikorodu road in Lagos.
They were said to have been apprehended while selling the stolen products to filling stations in the city.
The four convicts, who are to share the jail term equally, are Yama Abass, Adeleke Adetoro, Olaniyi Tope and Beliya Abegunde.
They were arraigned before Justice Okon Abang last year August along with one Alabi Olayinka, an accountant in a petrol station in Lagos.
But Abang, who convicted Abass, Adetoro, Tope and Abegunde, discharged and acquitted Olayinka, saying there was no evidence to link him to the crime.
Pronouncing judgement, the judge said: "they have no sympathy for this country and the citizens. In spite of all the efforts made by the Federal Government to protect the petroleum pipelines and make petrol to get to everybody with ease, the convicts and their cohorts have made consistent efforts to sabotage and frustrate the effort of the Federal Government,”
#Nigeria #Petrol