Hijacked Ogun tanker recovered by Police in Oyo

The Oyo State Police Command has recovered a hijacked DAF tanker motortruck abandoned by suspected criminals successful the Ile-Igbon country of the authorities pursuing intelligence-led operations.

According to the command, the betterment was made aft credible quality and sustained surveillance efforts aimed astatine combating convulsive transgression and conveyance theft crossed Oyo State.

In a connection issued connected Friday by the Police Public Relations Officer, Ayanlade Olayinka, the tanker had reportedly been near unattended for respective days aft the suspects fled the country upon noticing intensified constabulary tracking activities.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the tanker was primitively hijacked on the Ijebu-Ode axis of neighbouring Ogun State earlier being moved into Oyo State.

“The transgression elements who had unlawfully taken possession of the motortruck abandoned it upon realising that information operatives were actively tracking their movement,” the constabulary stated.

The operator aboriginal identified the recovered conveyance and confirmed that it had been forcefully taken from him during the incident.