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Dangote group hands over errant drivers to authorities

Dangote Group on Sunday said the company’s drivers’ patrol team has made several arrests of its errant drivers that engaged in illegal activities and handed them over to relevant authorities for prosecution.

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The company made the disclosure in a statement signed by its Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Mr Anthony Chiejina, in Lagos.

Chiejina also urged the general public to assist with relevant information to help curb the trend of unscrupulous drivers who also constituted themselves into menace to other road users.

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He recalled that the company had in an effort to carry the public along in addressing the activities of these drivers, announced   monetary rewards for persons that would plead to the arrest of erring drivers by the law enforcement agents.


Chiejina revealed that among several others, the team, recently in the North Central Zone of the country arrested both a driver and his truck carrying fully loaded illegal haulage of timber and handed them over to the police.

According to Chiejina, the driver was subsequently charged to a Magistrate Court in Akwanga, Nasarawa, for criminal breach of trust.


He said that the driver was sentenced to four months jail term after he pleaded guilty.

Chiejina said that the presiding magistrate on the case ordered that the truck and load be released to the company and owner respectivel.


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