Mr Ofoagbu Ekene, who works in a filling station ha fled with fuel worth millions of naira
A 25-year-old woman, Joy Okeke and a teacher, Lukman Kelani, has been arrested by the Nigerian police to that effect
After hearing the sides of Okeke and Kelani, the police were not satisfied with the information and accused them of perversion of justice
A 25-year-old woman, Joy Okeke, has been arrested by the Nigerian police after her boyfriend, Ofoagbu Ekene, reportedly fled with 40,000 litres of diesel worth N7.2m, Punch Metro reports.
She was arrested along with a teacher, Lukman Kelani who posed as a guarantor of Ekene at Northbridge Oil by employing him as a driver.
On Monday, October 1, the company had sent the fleeing suspect to deliver fuel at a filling station in Port Harcourt, Rivers state but never showed up.
The company became concerned after the filling station complained that they had not received fuel from anyone.
On hearing this, the company tried to contact Ekene but to no avail, so they took the matter to the police.
The police eventually found the company’s empty tanker at Aba, Anambra state and traced Ekene to his residence in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos on Wednesday, October 5 where they picked his girlfriend up.
The woman who led the operatives to the guarantor’s house told the police that she was in the house with her boyfriend when he was called by the company to head to Port Hacourt.
“We have been together for four months now. I only know he hails from Abia State. I don’t know any of his family. We were at home on that day when he was called from the office to take fuel to Port Harcourt.
“He called me two days after, requesting that I send him recharge cards which I did. He said the vehicle he traveled in was faulty.
“I was surprised when I was told by the police that he diverted the fuel and fled,” she said.
The 35-year-old teacher, Kelani, said the last time he heard from Ekene was Saturday, September 24, when he called to congratulate him on the telephone on the birth of his new born baby.
“I stood as his guarantor because of the relationship between his lover and me. We attend the same church and teach in the same school.
“The last time we spoke was on the telephone. My wife just gave birth and Ekene called to congratulate us. I don’t know his whereabouts,” he said.
However, the police were not satisfied with the information given by the suspects and consequently accused them of one count of perversion of justice in a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, October 11.
The charge read: “That you, Lukman Kelani, Joy Okeke, and others at large, on October 5, 2016, at about 10am, at the Elemoro police station, in the Lagos magisterial district, conspired among yourselves to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the cause of justice by refusing to give the police any useful information about one Ofoagbu Ekene, who you (Kelani) signed for as a guarantor to enable him to secure a driving job at Northbridge Oil and having secured the job, he stole 40,000 litres of diesel valued at N7,280,000 property of Northbridge Oil, abandoned the truck in Anambra State and ran away.”
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the count as the presiding magistrate, Mrs M.B. Folami, granted them bail in the sum of N2 million each with two sureties each in like sum.
However, the defendants were remanded in prison custody pending when their bail conditions would be perfected while the case was adjourned till November 21, 2016.
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