Alhassan Tampiga, a fuel station security officer at Kumasi-Bone Nasona Fuel Station, has been apprehended by the police after he was caught in a fuel smuggling attempt this morning. Alhassan from the narration of the whistleblower was about to sell off 16 gallons of fuel when he was surrounded by residents of Kumasi-Bone.
Kofi Yamoah, the whistleblower in his statement to the Kumasi-Bone police, accounted that, the 41-year-old Alhassan Tampiga had wanted to sell off the stolen fuel to him but he refused and caused his arrest instead. I am an excavator driver and that was why he wanted me to buy it. I would have bought them and paid him if it wasn’t a stolen product, Kofi said in his report to the Kumasi-Bone Police this morning.
Alhassan sitting in police cells at Kumasi-Bone Police station had made contacts with Kofi Yamoah, an excavator driver to take delivery of his merchandise, the fuel. Kofi Yamoah, knowing well Alhassan doesn’t own a fuel station, questioned him where he got his fuel and it was there, Ahassan revealed that, the fuel was from a friend.
One of my tanker drivers gave it to me to sell. He brings it every month but didn’t know who to sell to. We can do business every month. I deliver and you pay me, Alhassan said in an attempt to convince Kofi Yamoah.
Kofi doubtful of Alhassan’s explanation, called his boys on Alhassan and it was there, he revealed the real source of the fuel. Alhassan from his confession to Kofi Yamoah and his boys, stated that the fuel was from his station but he didn’t steal them. I swear to God, I am not a thief. I didn’t steal it.
My manager gave it to me as a gift, Alhassan said in an attempt to get away from Kofi Yamoah and his boys. Stephen Agyei, the Fuel Station Manager of Kumasi-Bone Nasona Filling Station, has rejected ever giving any fuel to Alhassan.
We have been having shortages of fuel but never did it occur to me, Alhassan was the one behind the fuel shortages. I have never given anything to him and will never give any fuel to him to sell. There is a fuel station that sells fuel so why will I have to give fuel to a security man who knows nothing about fuel, Stephen Agyei, the manager questioned Alhassan after his arrest.
All the 16 gallons of the stolen diesel has been taken to the Kumasi-Bone police station where investigations is still ongoing. Alhassan may be arraigned before the Ofoase-Kokoben Circuit Court on Monday for fuel smuggling.
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