Car Dealer Devastated as Interested Buyer Disappears with ‘N55m Benz’ During Test-drive in Abuja
- An interested buyer identified simply as Henry has vanished a grey Benz worth over N55m during test-drive in Abuja
- The car dealer explained that his friend, a fellow car dealer took the Henry to Henry, who asked for a test drive and disappeared when his friend stepped out to use the PoS
- The FCT Police Command said officers are tracking the suspect but there's no update at the moment
FCT, Abuja - A car dealer simply identified as Manga, has narrated how an interested buyer known as Henry disappeared with a Benz car worth over N55 million during test-drive in the Garki area of Abuja.
Manga explained that a fellow car dealer took the grey car to Henry, who claimed to reside in Gwarinpa after he showed interest to purchase the Benz, TheCable reported.
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According to Manga, Henry zoomed off with the vehicle while the fellow car dealer stepped down to withdraw money from a point of sale (PoS) operator to buy fuel at a filling station.
He said:
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“They negotiated N55m for the car and he said okay and demanded test-driving the car.
“He drove the car with my friend sitting on the passenger side of the vehicle and they drove out to the filling station opposite the automatic car wash in Garki to buy petrol before the test drive.
“Immediately my friend stepped out of the car at the filling station to withdraw money from the PoS operator to buy fuel, the guy zoomed off with the vehicle.
“You know how it is, there’s no traffic, no hold-up in Abuja and that’s how he absconded with the car.”
We are tracking the stolen car, Police say
The spokesperson of the FCT Police Command, Josephine Ameh told TheCable that police operatives are tracking the suspect.
“The incident has been reported to us and we have started tracking the suspect but as of now, we do not have any further update.
“It is a huge loss to the vehicle owner and we are committed to getting to the root of the incident.”
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that the Anambra state police command has said it arrested a 26-year-old corps member for "fraudulently transferring a total sum of forty-seven million Naira (N47,000,000) to his 14 different bank accounts."
In a press conference on Saturday, April 29, the state's Police Commissioner, Echeng Echeng, said that Emeh Nnamdi Daniel, a youth corp member serving in the police command, was arrested by INTERPOL operatives when he was trying to flee the country to the Benin Republic.
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Legit.ng also reported that a 19-year-old man, Nafiu Sulaiman, has been arrested by the police for single-handedly “kidnapping himself” and collecting N365,000 ransom from his uncle in Kano state.
Sulaiman works under his uncle in a cement shop in Garindau village in Warawa LGA of the state.
Source: Legit.ng
