Customer Disappears With Car During Test Drive In Abuja

Mohammed Manga, a dealer in cars with his base in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja has reported a case of an individual who posed as a potential buyer looking to test drive a grey Mercedes Benz GLB 250 (19000 mileage)  vehicle for sale but disappeared without any trace.

Manga, who was in shock at the time of narrating the incident said that he had given his friend who is also a car dealer the car worth 55 million naira to take to an individual who had expressed interest in purchasing it.

As soon as the car got to the potential buyer (who introduced himself as Henry), negotiations began and a test drive was requested by Henry afterwards.So Henry drove the car with Manga’s friend sitting close to him.

Not long after, they both agreed that there was need for them to drive into a filling station to fuel the vehicle.It was at this point manga’s friend got out of the car explaining to Henry that he needed to make use of the ATM in order to pay for the fuelling of the car.

As soon as he got out of the car, Henry drove off and hasn’t been seen since then.

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“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 narrated while still in shock.

He went on further to say “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.”

Though the case was reported to the police, Henry is still at large as at the time of this report.