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Police Arrest Passenger For Drugging Driver, Stealing Vehicle

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Chukwuneta Emmanuel, who identified himself as a senior officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has been arrested by Police detectives in Ondo State.
Chukwuneta chartered a vehicle, drugged the driver and escaped with the vehicle.
Vanguard reported that the suspect approached the driver of a Toyota Sienna bus, Oluwaseun Johnson, at about 9a.m. at a Benin park in Akure, the Ondo State capital. He chartered it to take him to Asaba, the Delta State capital.

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When the driver of the bus, with number plates KRD 739 DQ, arrived Asaba, he lodged into a hotel to spend the night and the suspect bought a beverage, spiked it and gave same to the driver to take before sleeping, after the long journey.

The suspect then drove the vehicle to an unknown destination, while the driver was under the influence of the drug.

The victim raised alarm when he woke up later to find his vehicle gone.

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