Olusola Odumosu, the Commandant of the Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, has decried the level of vandalism of critical assets by miscreants in the territory.
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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.
The Police Command in Anambra says it has commenced 24-hour surveillance on the Second Niger Bridge to protect it from vandalism.
Musa Farouk, State Commandant of the Corps, paraded the suspects on Monday in Maiduguri, the state capital.
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The police charged Idowu Ganiyu, 26, and Audu Babale,18 with three counts of conspiracy, vandalism and theft.
In a statement, the company’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Godwin Idemudia, said that vandalism is one of the biggest challenges faced by the company, which results in prolonged outages and affects growth in the power sector.
The incident happened on Friday July 30, 2021, around midnight, according to a statement by the agency.
DSP Suleiman Nguroje, the command’s spokesperson, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Yola.
Oke-Osanyintolu made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria after the LASEMA Response Team discovered the unlawful operation in Lagos.
The NSCDC Commandant in the state, Lucy Samu, disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Abakaliki.
Aramide Adeyoye, Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Works and Infrastructure, said this while taking questions from newsmen during the 2020 ministerial press briefing.
Philip Ayodele, the State Commandant of the Corps, made this known at a press briefing in Abeokuta on Monday.
The NSCDC paraded the suspects together with 55 drums, each of which contained 250 litres of diesel.
The event took place at the corps’s Badagry District Headquarters, Lagos
The state NSCDC Commandant, Ibrahim Abdullahi, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri, said the suspects were arrested in Bakassi camp
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During a courtesy visits to the Director of the Department of State Security and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command by the Management of IKEDC, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Engineer Abiodun Ajifowobaje, lamented that the spate of vandalism was becoming worrisome, stating that the company recently replaced equipment in 42 vandalised Distribution Substations at a cost of over N11 million in January
He said: “I have always considered vandalism of national assets and infrastructure as a moral equivalent of war