A car dealer, Mohammed Manga, has been thrown into confusion
after a customer, one Henry, absconded with one of his cars, a Mercedes Benz
GLB 250 in the Abuja area of the Federal Capital Territory.
It was gathered from Manga that a yet-to-be-identified
friend who is also into the business of selling cars visited his office in
Abuja requesting to take the vehicle worth over N55m to a potential customer
interested in purchasing it.
After taking the vehicle to the customer who introduced
himself as Henry, Manga said his friend told him that after negotiations, Henry
requested a test drive and was accompanied by his friend.
Manga said his friend was with Henry while he was test-driving the vehicle, adding that things took another turn when his friend informed Henry that he wanted to withdraw money from a Point of Sale operator to purchase fuel for the vehicle at a filling station
He explained that when his friend stepped out of the vehicle
to make the withdrawal, Henry zoomed off with the vehicle to an unknown
destination.
Manga said, “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.
“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.”
Manga said he reported that case to the Anti-Car Theft Unit
of the command, adding that the stolen car is grey, with a mileage of 19000.
Contacted, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer,
Josephine Ameh, said, “The police are tracking the suspect (Henry).”
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