LAGOS – The Lagos State Police Command has smashed a syndicate whose members had been parading themselves as the Presidential Policing Marshal Task Force from the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA has been smashed by the Police in Lagos.
The arrested members were alleged to have hijacked and diverted two containers loaded with goods, in one of the warehouses in Lagos.
Their modus operandi included tracking goods from the Apapa ports to warehouses, with an impression to inspect them, under the cover of the presidential task force.
However, luck ran against them when policemen at the Area ‘B’ Command, Apapa, accosted them with the two containers they allegedly hijacked and diverted.
Upon interrogation, they claimed they got an instruction from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) to carry out the action.
Source revealed the syndicate was denied by the NSA that when the Police contacted the agency, insisting that the suspects should be well interrogated to unravel the people who gave them authorisation.
