Kazeem Owoseni
The recovery of a Mercedes Benz GLB 250 SUV car worth N55m, stolen by a prospectful buyer while test-driving it in Abuja, has been confirmed by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command.
Disclosing this development, the command spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, stated that the car was recovered by the Police Command in Delta State.
Premium Politics, hadearlier reported that a car dealer, Mohammed Manga, made a complaint to the police that one Mr Henry, who disguised as a customer, absconded with the car while test-driving it in Abuja.
According to him, one of his friends who is also a car dealer, took the Mercedes Benz to the prospective buyer for sale, but trouble started when Henry begged to test-run the car after the price was settled at N55 million.
However, the prospective buyer zoomed off the car while the dealer was using POS machine to withdraw money, to buy fuel into the vehicle.
The case was reported to the FCT police command and the command subsequently declared Henry wanted over the stolen N55 million Mercedes Benz.
While disclosing the recovery, SP Adeh said the recovery of the stolen vehicle by the Delta State Command is an indication of the collaborative efforts of the Police across board.
“The FCT Command had earlier initiated a discrete investigation into the incident and alerted other Commands, which led to the recovery of the vehicle,” she said.
