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General News of Saturday, July 6, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-07-06
Photo file of the tanker on fire
A tank truck driver and his mate are under the influence of police for burning a diesel tanker in a bush near Osino, in the eastern region, after emptying and sold its load of 54,000 liters of diesel.
The oil tanker, with a value of 280 260 GH ¢ of diesel fuel from Fuel Trade in Tema, was heading towards Yendi in the northern region, but was diverted and sold to Accra, after which the suspects drove the empty tanker to Osino where they burned it. .
The suspects are Awudu Yakubu, 34, the driver and Isaac Boadi, 19.
An accomplice, Fataw Mohammed, a former driver employed by the owner of the truck and who would be the mastermind of the agreement, is however on the run and the police conducted an intensive search for his arrest.
Oil products
The Deputy Director General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Mr. George Tweneboah, Deputy Police Commissioner (ACP), who disclosed this information to the Daily Graphic, stated that the Applicant was a man of business and a carrier in Accra. deal with petroleum products.
Last year, he stated that the Applicant had given Awudu his DAF CF 460 truck, registered GS 264 14, and had also named Boadi as his companion.
ACP Tweneboah said the two suspects have since been loading petroleum products to supply several customers in different parts of the country.
He added that on June 24, 2019, the accused had been loaded with 54,000 liters of diesel, worth 280,260 GH ¢, at Fuel Trade in Tema to be delivered to a Yendi customer.
He said that they had left Tema overnight and had met the complainant at the community crossing point 18 of the Accra-Tema motorway, where he had granted them a daily allowance of 2 400 GH ¢.
Sale of fuel
He added that police investigations had revealed that the suspects had taken the road to Yendi, but arriving at the end of the highway in Accra, they claimed to be running out of fuel. Yakubu parked the vehicle on the side of the road. sent to buy fuel.
While Yakubu was waiting for his companion, Mohammed, the other driver of the complainant, went to meet Yakubu and they came up with a plan to sell the fuel and burn the tanker.
The three suspects brought the fuel back to Tema, where they sold it to a single Nana Yaw, and after their evil act, they drove the empty tanker to the Unity petrol station in Achimota and bought 75 liters of gasoline that they put in gallons, place them in the truck and go on a trip with the empty tanker.
ACP Tweneboah said that they drove to a location between Osino and Anyinam in the eastern region, where they simulated an accident, showing that the tanker had landed in a ditch because it was running at full speed.
Truck ignited
He added that the suspects had poured gasoline that they had bought in Achimota on the tanker's head and set it on fire. After that, Yakubu called the complainant's secretary and told him that the truck had been involved on his trip to Yendi. an accident.
The secretary then informed the complainant who, believing that the driver and his companion had been injured, had promptly sent the secretary to take care of both, with follow-up being planned later.
Upon arriving at the scene of the alleged accident, the secretary detected that the tanker was empty.
At that moment, the driver could not be found, but the second was sitting near the bushes near the burning truck.
When the policeman was questioned about the driver's fate, he said the driver had asked him to wait while he was traveling to Kumasi and back, police said.
Uncovered plan
When asked the second to tell what had led to the accident, he could not speak, but when it was deepened, he broke down and confessed that they had worked out a plan with Mohammed to sell the fuel and burn the tanker.
The owner of the truck then took Osino's journeyman to Accra, where he lodged a complaint with the CID headquarters and handed it over to the police for further investigation.
Police investigations led to the arrest of Yakubu from his hideout in Kumasi and his arrival in Accra, where, after interrogation, he confessed to the crime and mentioned that Mohammed was the mastermind behind this plan.
The chief of the intelligence unit of CID, Superintendent Ebenezer Nketsiah, advised tanker owners and businessmen to strive to check the background of all potential employees before to engage them.
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