A detained officer of the Nigerian Customs Service Owombo Segun, who exposed how refined petroleum products, particularly petrol are being trafficked out of Nigeria into Chad, Niger Republic, Cameroon and other African Nation has been taken from Adamawa to Abuja.
While still in detention, Owombo was taken to Abuja to meet with the Comptroller General of Customs.
Sahara Reporters confirm this on Monday through a telephone conversation with Owombo brother who said his brother informed him that his life have been threatened since since he has been kept in the prison.
Four days ago when I called him, I was told customs officials have been threatening him. They said they will end my life and since then, we could not reach him again, maybe his mobile phone has been collected from him.
“But a source within the office told me this morning that he has been taken to Customs National Headquarters in Abuja,” Owombo’s brother said.
Owombo was said to have being suffering from a mental disorder which is untrue, said his brother.
Owombo’s brother continues: “My brother is a very brilliant man.
Someone that was posted to Adamawa and has been working there since, how can you now say he is insane? That is a lie. They are just trying to cover up.”
“The claim that he was found naked is also not true. He told me that immediately after he released the video, he was attacked by some customs officers and tanker drivers. He even told me that if he is allowed, he has some evidence to back up his claim,” he added.
When asked why Owombo was calling on Bola Tinubu, the ruling APC presidential candidate, in his video, he said Owombo did that due to inexperience.
“I also found that not good. He should have followed a proper channel to report what he found and not necessarily call out anybody’s name,” he said.
Last Friday, multiple sources told Sahara Reporters that Owombo, an officer attached to the Federal Operations Unit, Zone D in Adamawa State had been arrested and detained.
According to a video flying around social media, Owombo narrated how he arrested so many smugglers on Wednesday, November 2nd, at Malabo Checkpoint on Belel Road, Adamawa state.
He however said senior officials of the Nigerian Custom Service called him to release the suspects.
Recently, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva said Nigeria loses at least 700,000 barrels of crude oil to thieves daily.
