The police in Lagos State has uncovered an illegal oil depot at the Onigbongbo local government area of the state.

According to the Public Relations Officer of the command, Dolapo badmos, 8 persons were arrested.

She said the men of the command

and the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) discovered the depot during a raid led by commissioner of police ,Fatai Owoseni.

“With what we have seen on ground, the magnitude of the activities taking place here, it shows that this probably must have been happening for some period. It could be years

that people don’t get noticed and this could explain why some people would buy new cars, new generators and they would tell you that they put diesel inside and the engine knocks; these are probably the criminal minds behind these things,” Owoseni said.

“They have so many drums; they even have plenty tankers here and they must have been doing this for long. They take the adulterated products out to go and sell to unsuspecting members of the public and we end up with people having their valuable items destroyed and in some cases leading to fire incidents.”

Owoseni warned still involved in such illegality, stressing that they will be discovered soon.

“We would use this to send a message across to other people that are engaged in illegal business like this, no stone would be left unturned to get to the root cause, to get to all the people that are involved — the perpetrators, the conspirators — and we would ensure that the investigation is carefully handled and done to logical conclusion so that at the end of the day we would get people to face the music and deal with the according to the law,” he said.

“Would ensure diligent prosecution as well and with that, we would be sending a message to other perpetrators that are engaged in acts like that to tell them that in Lagos, no act of lawlessness and illegality would be entertained and that everyone that has run foul of the law through this kind of thing would face the music.”