The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC has arrested 13 suspected railway vandals with large quantities of long rails and sleepers worth N800 million.
According to the statement signed by the Corps spokesman, Babawale Afolabi, the suspects were arrested by the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad.
The suspects were paraded alongside five trucks conveying the large quantities of vandalized rails and sleepers at the NSCDC Headquarters, Abuja on Tuesday.
Afolabi stated that the arrests took place around the Manchock area of Kaura LGA, the Zonkwa area in Zango Kataf LGA, and the Kaffanchan area in Jama’a LGA of Kaduna State.
He added that upon arrest, the CGs SIS operatives were offered 30 million naira as bribe which they declined.
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