{"id":10562,"date":"2026-02-16T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=10562"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:36:15","slug":"police-arrest-suspect-over-adulterated-engine-oil-syndicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2026\/02\/16\/police-arrest-suspect-over-adulterated-engine-oil-syndicate\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspect over adulterated engine oil syndicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Police under <b>AIG Adegoke Fayoade&#8217;s Zone 2 Command\u00a0<\/b>arrest suspect over adulterated engine oil syndicate<\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the Nigerian police force have arrested a suspect linked to the illegal production and distribution of adulterated engine oil across several parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was carried out by the Zone 2 Command under the leadership of Adegoke M Fayoade following a petition alleging widespread circulation of fake lubricants in the Nigerian market.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation and arrest<\/p>\n<p>According to police spokesperson Afolayab Gbenga the complaint was submitted to the Zone 2 Zonal Command headquarters located in Onikan Lagos state<\/p>\n<p>The matter was immediately referred to the Anti-Piracy Unit for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives launched a covert operation which led to the arrest of 26-year-old Ngwu Samuel Ebezimakor<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect admitted to importing fake lubricants from china and distributing them nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Seizures across multiple states<\/p>\n<p>Further intelligence-led raids resulted in the recovery of about 280 gallons of adulterated engine oil from locations in: Imo state, Enugu state, Kano state , lagos state, Ogun state<\/p>\n<p>Standards violation confirmed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The seized products were examined by the standards organization of Nigeria which confirmed they failed to meet Nigerian Industrial Standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police assurance<\/p>\n<p>The command said it remains committed to combating product adulteration and economic sabotage, protecting consumers, and ensuring offenders face prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Police under AIG Adegoke Fayoade&#8217;s Zone 2 Command\u00a0arrest suspect over adulterated engine oil syndicate Operatives of the Nigerian police force have arrested a suspect linked to the illegal production and distribution of adulterated&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10563,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions\/10563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}