A gang of illegal automotive gas oil dealers were last week arraigned at the federal high court in Lagos before Justice Rilwan Aikawa for illegal dealings in petroleum products without licence.
Subsequently, in the course of investigations, 10 other crew members were arrested and it was revealed that the source of the product was from one Mama Elizabeth. Mohammed further tendered pieces of evidence to support their findings such as a letter from the Nigerian Navy dated 13th of December, 2018 addressed to the acting chairman of the EFCC, Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft letter dated 25th, January 2019, the statements volunteered by the arresting officers, M.A Yakubu and Aminu Ahmed as well as the statements of the 18 defendants who pleaded guilty.
The court after considering the plea bargain, voluntarily entered by the defendants and granted them each, 1-year imprisonment on each of the count charges to run concurrently beginning from the day of arrest.
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