The Railway Police Command of the Nigerian Police Force has expanded security around the rail line passages with an end goal to reduce burglary of rail route framework cross country.
The Command in the period of July and August captured no less than 15 suspects for wrongdoings lining burglary, vandalization, and other appalling violations carried out around the Nigerian Railway Corporation foundation.
As per Railway Police Command chief, CP Yetunde Longe, in Minna, Niger State, three suspects were blocked by the watch group of the Railway Police Division upon dependable hint by individuals from a vigilante bunch. The suspects, Hadi Mohammed, 42, Abdullahi Mohammed, 34, and Abdullahi Shittu, 45, were captured with 32 Railway iron shoes stacked in a cantina vehicle.
“Comparatively in Aba, four suspects, Michael Chukwuebuka, Chigozie Augustine, Onyekachi Abba, and Chukwuma Adumoha, were captured in association with the burglary of rail line pandrol shoes stayed with by Chinese Construction (CCECC) for development work. Upon examination, the taken things were recuperated and given over to the development organization.
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“Two escaping suspects, Ridwan Olalekan and Sharafa Muritala, have additionally been captured and charged to court by the Railway Criminal Investigation Department. The suspects were at first seen in a bramble in Akwanga, Nasarawa State, where they vandalized around 72 rail track irons. At seeing the cops, they suspect ran away from the area and deserted their truck vehicle. After extraordinary examination, the suspects were captured and charged to court. Both have remanded in Ikoyi Correctional Center.
“While, the Ilorin division of the Command, Kwara state, likewise captured two thought hoodlums – Yahaya Mohammed and Jumai Sule with 113 pandrol cuts at Sabongida area of Jebba during a normal watch; Gombe division additionally captured one Bashir Abudullahi who was trapped in the demonstration of vandalizing and taking 58 rail line cuts.
“Two trucks having a place with Dangote Sugar were seen in Kaduna, stacked with undefined measure of Railway irons having a place with the Nigerian Railway Corporation. No suspects have been captured regarding the wrongdoing, be that as it may, the trucks have been moved to safe authority while examinations are continuous.”
CP Longe pestered the significance of Citizen-Police association to carry wrongdoing and criminal components to halt
Longe added that the conflict against rail line defacement is a consistent one until the whole Nigerian rail lines are liberated from hoodlums and criminal components as culprits would be made to confront the full fury of the law.
