Photos: Lagos landlady arrested for allegedly connecting water well to NNPC pipeline
Mrs Floyinka Ayinda has been arrested and
detained at Idimu division on charges of vandalism of NNPC pipeline in
Isheri Olofin, Lagos, after a pipe water well was discovered to be
connected to NNPC pipeline.
According to PM
News, the 59-year-old landlady has been siphoning petrol illegally at
her residence located at KML 1, LASU Road, Iyana Odo bus stop in Isheri
Olofin, for the past three years.
Officers of
the Anti-Vandalism Intelligence
Unit Team B set up by Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase,
acting on a tip-off made the discovery. Ayinde allegedly admitted after
her arrest that
for the past three years, vandals has been operating in her house and
she reported to the NNPC officials but they did not do anything about
it.
She however denied her involvement in the
act and claimed that her only mistake was by not informing the police
because she relied on NNPC who
asked her not to bother. The suspect further revealed that the NNPC
officials use to come with a team and
she did not ask to know whether they were really officers or not.
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