Yesterday,Justice Agatha A. Okeke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, sentenced four suspected members of an oil syndicate Olusegun Gbenga, Yusuf Muhammed, Abass Auwal and Olanipekun Olagoke to 10years imprisonment on each of the 12-count charge of oil theft preferred against them by EFCC

One of the counts reads:
“That you, Olusegun Gbenga, Yusuf Muhammed, Abass Auwal and Olanipekun Olagoke, on the 12th day of May, 2014, at Toto Military check point in Nasarawa State, did, without lawful authority or an appropriate licence, deal in crude oil.” The sentences are to run concurrently.