Police Arrest 2 For Falsifying Tyres, chassis, Engine Numbers In Lagos.

Two people, who allegedly falsified the expiry date of tyres have been arrested by the police in Lagos state.

The suspects are currently being detained at the Criminal Investigations Department of the State Police Command, Panti Yaba.

The two suspects, Samuel Obi and Izuchukwu Iwueze also reportedly changed engine and chassis numbers of vehicles.

According to the police, the suspects were traders at the popular Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in the Mushin area of Lagos State.

The deputy commissioner of police in charge of the state CID, Bolaji Salami said that 19-year-old Samuel was taking his expired tyres to Iwueze, who has the machine to falsify the expiry date.

The police boss said “The machine they have could change the date on vehicle’s tyres, engine and chassis numbers. We got information about them through members of the public.”

He added, “We recovered some tyres they changed their expired dates as exhibits.”

Iwueze confessed to the crime and claimed to have been introduced to the business in 2016 by one of his friends.

The suspect also said that apart from traders, motorists from outside also come to him to falsify the expiry date of their vehicle’s tyre.

Iwueze said, “Some customers come to us and ask us to change the expiry date on their tyres because Road Safety officials were troubling them as a result of the date. We can change from 2014 to 2016 within 10 to 20 minutes.”

“The truck pushers also bring tyres to change their date. We change one tyre at the cost of N300. We work on about 15 tyres daily,” he also added.

The suspect also added, “I worked for one Jude Chukwukeku. He gives me at least, N2,000 daily, depending on the numbers of tyres worked on daily.”

The other suspect, Samuel said “I sent my boy to collect N1,000 from Izuchukwu. While at his shop, he met the police who arrested him for being part of the crime. I was called to come there.”

He continued that “I went there to see my boy arrested, only for the police to arrest me for sending my boy to change tyre’s expired date. It is true I sell tyres, but I did not change the expired dates.”

Source: Nigeria Tribune.