TRUCK OWNER PAYS CDA2 TASKFORCE & CSO TO PASS CARDOSO ROAD AT NIGHT

one of the trucks with the driver still seated in it as the CSO & Task force stopped them

It has been an uncompromising principle from the onset that articulated trucks intending to lift any kind of oil products from the depots in Kirikiri town must make use of Karimu road as its entrance and when loaded, exits through Cardoso road. This sagacious law has since been upheld except for one special occasion when the Karimu culvert was closed down for complete reconstruction.

At 12:05am, in the premature 60 minutes of Wednesday, three trucks belonging to GB & Jemma Petroleum, under the management of one Mrs. Labake broke

another truck parked behind the other two trucks

speed limits in convoy and almost knocked down some pedestrians along Cardoso road as they headed for one of the illegal oil depot speculated to be Bakare Depots to lift a specific oil product when they were halted by a tipper offloading granite to be used for the completion of the other end of Cardoso road.

The CDA2 task force Chief Mr. Femi and the CDA2 Chief Security Officer who were on duty that night received the alarm and intercepted the trucks ordering them to return back to the queue as other trucks did but also charged them to pay a fine of NGN 15000 each for breaking the traffic law and boycotting community levy. Mrs. Labake pleaded and even knelt down begging but they stood their ground not to compromise standard and further threatened to call the DPO if they don’t comply.

the third truck

However, Kirikiri News gathered that the CSO and the Task force Chief connived with Mrs. Labake in a corner to allow the trucks pass. In a short while the three trucks that had already obeyed orders to turn back, reversed and headed straight to their intended destination – the illegal oil depot.

It was speculated that the CSO and Task force Chief must have collected the sum of NGN 450000 as fine or as kind for letting them go against the rule. Kirikiri News also gathered that it was because of the media presence at the scene that brought about the ranting and sermonizing which was eventually out-and-out duplicity.