A customer, simply identified as Henry has reportedly absconded with one car, a Mercedes Benz GLB 250 belongs to a car dealer, Mohammed Manga, in the Federal Capital Territory.
It was learnt that the vehicle worth over N55m.
PUNCH reports that during testing, the suspect zoomed off with the vehicle to an unknown destination, when the dealer stepped out of the car to withdraw money from a Point of Sale operator to purchase fuel for the vehicle at a filling station.
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.
Confirming the incident was the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Ameh, noting that, “The police are tracking the suspect (Henry).”