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ICPC Nabs Oando Filling Station Accountant Over New Naira Racketeering
Fred Omotara, Lagos
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission) on Friday night said it’s operatives arrested an Accountant of Oando Filling Station in Abuja for being involved in new Naira notes racketeering.
In a statement issued on Friday evening, the ICPC said that the filling station deliberately disconnected its Point of Sale (POS) services so that motorists could not have access to the Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called Petrol, using their ATM cards.
According to the ICPC, “Our iperatives have arrested an accountant of Oando Filling Station, Dutse Alhaji, Abuja over alleged racketeering of the new Naira notes.
“This latest arrest followed the continued onslaught by the Commission on some elements who have taken advantage of the scarcity of the new Naira notes to swindle unsuspecting Nigerians.
“The ICPC Monitoring Team had earlier received a tip-off that the said filling station deliberately disconnected its Point of Sale (POS) services so that motorists could not have access to the Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called Petrol, using their ATM cards.
“Upon reaching the Petrol Station, the Team found out that motorists were forced to pay for the product in cash, and those without the new notes were directed to a POS operator directly opposite the Filling Station to access the cash.
“ICPC operatives found out that the POS did not only belong to the Accountant of the Filling Station, but it was charging a very high exorbitant rate as commission against the directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)