Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (second right), tending to the media on the salvage of three female understudies of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu at the Lagos House, Ikeja, on Sunday, March 06, 2016. (R-L) With him are Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni; Attorney General and
Magistrate for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem and Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde | Lagos Gov't Photo
The Lagos State government, on Friday, August 12, 2016, revealed 12 houses with illicit oil wells in Abeokuta Ibadan Street in Ilasamaja territory of the state.
Reports say proprietors of the houses constructed shallow wells to take diesel from pipelines having a place with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,
NNPC.
As contained in an announcement issued by the state's magistrate for data and procedure, Steve Ayorinde, the oil wells were fabricated intentionally for unlawfully scooping of diesel, including that a portion of the influenced proprietors constructed pumping machine and boreholes to execute the wrongdoing on an expansive scale.
Ayorinde said a consolidated group from the State Police Command, the Ministry of Environment, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, Lagos State Fire Service and Sole Administrator of Isolo Local Council Development Area completed a careful investigation of the whole territory and found nothing under 12 of the illicit oil wells.
Affirming the occurrence, the chief of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said three suspects have been captured.
"the men of the Lagos State Police Command in the region who were on routine watch said they saw a lady around 12 midnight with barrel of diesel and when an endeavor was made for her to be addressed, she fled, an improvement which alarmed the police of something fishy," Owoseni said.
"The police quickly sought after the lady and addressed her, after which she in the end took them to number 12, Abeokuta Street, off Ilasamaja, one of the houses lodging the unlawful oil wells."
The official added that after getting to the said house, those inside close the entryway and kept the police from getting access.
"The officers from that point left the scene with the captured lady, and they later returned masking as potential purchasers of diesel, while those inside opened the entryway.
"It was by then that the unlawful oil well was found at the house, after which around 10 more wells were found in different houses in Abeokuta and Ibadan avenues.
"At the last number there, we have seen around 12 houses that had wells burrowed behind the house and the main thing that they scoop out of the wells is diesel yet not water.
"It is trusted that every one of the houses inside that region had this same thing.
"We have captured a portion of the landowners and we have likewise asked the occupants whether they have the learning that they were trading off their lives and property?" Owoseni said.
Ilasamaja people group is a thickly populated zone in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State.
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