Two men bag 20 Years Jail term for illegal oil bunkering
Wisdom Afangideh and
Godwin John were convicted and sentenced by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the
Federal High Court Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, to 10 years imprisonment on each of
the two count charge brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crime
Commission.
They were both arrested
on June 8, 2012 by officials the Department of State Service in Oku Iboku
village in Ikat Adakpan LG of Akwa Ibom State, with one DAF truck (registration
number XQ 926 APP Lagos) with 33,000 litres of suspected illegally refined Automotive
Gas Oil (AGO).
However, the convicts
were also given an option of paying N3M fine each. Also the truck and the
product are to be forfeited to the Federal Government.
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