Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kaduna Command, have arrested thirteen suspected railway vandals with large quantities of long rails and sleepers worth N800 million.
This was confirmed in a statement by the Corps spokesman, Babawale Afolabi, who disclosed that the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad arrested the suspects.
The spokesperson explained that the suspects were paraded at the NSCDC Headquarters, Abuja, alongside five trucks conveying the large quantities of vandalised rails and sleepers.
Afolabi stated that, “The arrests took place around the Manchock area of Kaura Local Government Area, Zonkwa area in Zango Kataf Local Government Area and Kaffanchan area in Jama’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State.”
Additionally, the statement said that the 13 suspects and five trucks have been taken into custody for profiling, further investigation and prosecution.
It added that the 13 suspects were still being interrogated and cross-examined after which other accomplices would be arrested and charged to court.
Afolabi added that N30 million naira was offered as a bribe to the CGs SIS operatives which they declined.
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Meanwhile, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun State Command has confirmed the kidnapping of six persons in Oyan town by unknown gunmen.
The spokesperson for the Command, Kehinde Adeleke disclosed that search and rescue operations were ongoing for those in captivity.
“Security agencies and local hunters in the community and its environs have been deployed for search and rescue missions,” he said.
It was gathered that the six victims were returning from a farm in Odo-Otin North local council development area when the incident occurred.
A source, who proffered anonymity, said the victims were returning to Oyan from Aworo village where their farmlands are located when the abductors attacked them at about 5:30 pm.
A chief in Oyan town, who was also abducted, however, escaped from his captors in the early hours of Tuesday, the source revealed.
He said, “This morning (Tuesday), hunters, police operatives, other security men and volunteers returned to the bush where the victims were abducted. The place is close to Kwara State.
“Around 2 am, one of the victims, a female chief in Oyan, escaped from the abductors but others are still there as of Tuesday evening.”