Pix: Dr. Ahmed Audi, Commandant General, NSCDC
By Isiaka Mustapha
A trailer laden with 775 railtracks suspected to have been vandalized by some criminally minded elements have been intercepted by men of the Niger State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),
The trailer was intercepted by the patrol team of the NSCDC along Mokwa road enroute Lagos where the railtracks were being transported to for disposal.
Already the driver of the trailer and the motor boy are now in the detention facility of the state command of the corps while the owner of the truck laden with the railtracks is on the run.Addressing Journalists at a news briefing in his office, Wednesday, the commandant of the corps in Niger State, Haruna Bala Zurmi said his men on patrol along Mokwa high way intercepted the trailer with the railtracks.
He explained that the raitracks numbering 775 were said to have been vandalised somewhere in Gboko Benue state from where they were being transported to a company in Lagos.
He stated that two of the suspects in their custody during investigation revealed that they were contracted by one Alhaji Aminu to convey the iterns to a factory in Lagos adding that the command has launched a total manhunt on the vandal that contracted them.
The command according to the him will continue with the onslaught against criminally minded elements that were in the habit of vandalising critical national installations.
He added that the command under his watch will make the state unbearable for vandals and their sponsors.He warned that he will use all the instrumentals of the law within the command to go all out for vandals in the state stressing the need for them to steer clear of the State or they turn a new leaf in their own interest.
The state commandant of the NSCDC, commended the efforts of the State patrol team of the corps for their commitment in effecting the arrest of the vandals assuring that his command will continue to reward any of the officers of the command for living above board in the discharge of their responsibilities.
He said the command’s Intelligence team are currently on the trail of the culprits currently on the run with the view to arresting them after which they will be charge to court for prosecution.