Kazeem Owoseni
The Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigerian Police has launched a manhunt on one Henry, who absconded with a Mercedes Benz GLB 250, worth N55 million in Abuja.
Reports revealed that the alleged car robber went to a car lot to price the Benze, which he claimed to have seen on the internet, and went away with it during a driving examination.
Narrating the incident, the car dealer, Mohammed Manga, stated that a yet-to-be-identified friend who is also a car dealer visited his office in Abuja requesting to take the vehicle worth over N55 million to a potential buyer, who introduced himself as Henry.
However, on taking the car to him, Henry who demanded a test drive after all negotiations, zoom off the car while his friend who accompanied him was about to withdraw some money from a point of sales operator, to buy fuel for the car at a filling station.
“A friend of mine called me to tell me that he wants to take my Mercedes Benz GLB 250 to a customer. He took the car to his office and the customer came there. He said the customer introduced himself as Henry from Gwarinpa and that he saw the car on an online marketplace,” Manga said.
“He saw the car and said he liked it; they negotiated N55m for the car and he said OK 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.
“But 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,” he narrated.
Manga however reported the case to the Anti-Car Theft Unit of the command, adding that the stolen car is grey, with a mileage of 19000.
However, Public Relations Officer for the FCT Polic Command, Josephine Ameh, who confirmed the report, assured that they were tracking the suspect.
