A truck driver with Dangote Cement, Nasiru H. Ahmed has met his waterloo after the transport section of the Ibese Plant handed him over to the Nigeria Customs Service for conveying contraband goods.
According to a report by Punch Newspaper, the truck driver was intercepted while conveying contrabands in Ibadan with one of the company’s truck and was handed over to the Customs for proper investigation and possible prosecution.
The Assistant General Manager in charge of security services, Dangote Cement Ibese Plant, Ali Garba, explained that the company had a surveillance section that monitors all the trucks and their drivers’ activities.
The arrest of the driver, it was also reported, was effected after receiving an intelligence bordering on misconduct by some of the drivers.
Garba said, “On June 7, 2017 at about 1820 hours, intelligence information received by Dangote senior drivers Ibese led to the interception of a Dantrans truck No. KMC 38 XR/ICT-13A-083 driven by a former and dismissed driver Ismaila Abubakar. The truck was loaded with frozen turkey allegedly loaded at Iyana Isolo, Lagos State and heading to Benin City, Edo State”
He added, “At Kara Garage in Benin City, Nasiru H. Ahmed dropped from the vehicle and travelled to Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State, leaving the truck in the care of his motor boys, Bilyaminu Abdullahi and Bashiru, with the dismissed driver, Ismaila Abubakar.”
“Unfortunately for the bona fide driver, Ismaila Abubakar drove the truck from Kara to the Benin Depot for offloading of the cement after removing the truck tracking system and left it in Benin City.
“Investigation revealed further that instead of driving straight to the plant, they decided to go to Iyana-Isolo in Lagos State to lift frozen turkey to Benin City at the cost of N350,000, out of which only N70,000 was paid as part-payment.”
Garba added that Ahmed 284393 was the bona fide driver of truck KMC 38 XR/ICT-13A-083 and preliminary investigation revealed that he's guilty as accused.
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