The Dangote Group of Companies Plc has declared 285
truck drivers wanted over theft of about 3.5 million customised tyres of the
company.
The Coordinator of the company’s National Patrol
Unit, Abdullahi Magaji, a retired commissioner of police, disclosed this
while
addressing journalists on Sunday in Lokoja.
Mr. Magaji said each tyre of the company had an
identification number and the number was registered against the driver’s name
at collection point.
”Already, 285 drivers identified to have collected
285 tyres have been declared wanted while a number of others are on the run.
”Already, we have stopped their salaries and we are
looking for them. So far, about 3.5 million tyres are missing from the company
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”We are appealing to those patronising the drivers
and who encouraged them to steal our tyres to stop forthwith. Dangote tyres are
customised and marked dealers and
vulcanisers should please beware.
”People should ensure that the tyres they buy
either as new or second hand are not customised Dangote tyres. We have
arraigned some drivers and dealers caught with tyres and efforts are being made
to arrest vulcanisers involved,” he said.
According to Mr. Magaji, security agents are
presently on the trail of an identified kinpin who comes to Obajana and Kano to
buy the tyres of the drivers.
“Our appeal to vulcanisers is to always look out
for our logo on the tyres and report accordingly,” the coordinator said.
He said that the president of the group of
companies, Aliko Dangote, had expressed concern over the incident, adding that
the company was trying by all means to stop the ugly development.
The former commissioner of police appealed to those
in custody of the tyres to return them “quietly”, either to the company or to
the nearest police station to avoid unpleasant consequences, if caught.
He expressed his firm’s gratitude to the media for
sensitising Nigerians on the zero-tolerance disposition of the management of
the company for reckless driving and illegal haulage.
Mr. Magaji noted that while illegal haulage had
dropped by about 85 per cent, accidents involving Dangote vehicles had reduced
drastically, adding that a silent revolution was going on in the company’s
transport section to
sanitise it.
(NAN)
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