Executive Secretary of the council, Mallam Ahmed Jaji, said a combined team of members of the Caretaker Committee and men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, attached to the LCDA, arrested the culprit.
Jaji said the team acted on a tip off that a tenant in a shop, opposite the Sunday Retail Market, Ogba, was stockpiling and engaging in illegal sale of petroleum product in the area.
He added that being a resident of the area, he mobilised his team for an on-the-spot assessment of the place.
The council boss explained that the team uncovered several kegs of petrol, carefully concealed behind foodstuffs and other commodities in the shop, adding that the team took both the culprit and the exhibit to the council to avoid being mobbed.
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