CRIME

Railway Police Command arrests rail vandals, vows to curb sabotage

Railway Police Command has arrested rail vandals across railway outlets in Nigeria.

 The arrest is in line with the spirit and letters of Operation Puff Adder of the Inspector General Police, IGP Mohammed A. Adamu.

The IGP’s operational code is aimed at nipping all criminal activities in the bud.

Accordingly, the Railway Police Command has stepped up its game to getting rid of vandals all over railway infrastructures nationwide.

In a statement by the Command’s spokesman, Deputy Superintendent of Police Chris Umukoro, the reactivated efforts of the Railway Command  

has yielded positive results as several vandals who specialize in the act of vandalism have been arrested across the Divisions.

The arrests, according to Umukoro were effected at Jos Railway Division where three male suspects were nabbed by officers and men of the Division.

The suspects are 28 years old Joseph Mark ; 29 years old Felix Monday Goyit, and 25 years old Emmanuel Japdung.

They all confessed to hail from  Jos South Local Government Area of  Plateau State.

 The suspects who were arrested at Anglo Jos behind Nasco Company, Jos, Plateau State, were in a tricycle with Reg. No. BUU 831 VC.

The tricycle was loaded with nine railway slippers, property of the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

Oshogbo suspects

In the same vein, officers and men of Osogbo Railway Division have arrested 23 years old Abdul Hamid and Mustapha Ilias.

They were arrested while vandalizing rail track by removing rail clips.

Exhibit recovered are two black bagco bags containing the rail iron clips along Ikirun area of Osun State.

Suspects have been arraigned in court.

Speaking, the Commissioner of Police, Eboka Friday, warned vandals and other criminally minded individuals to desist from such act.

He warned that the command is ever ready to flush out such criminal elements from in and around railway installations.

He, therefore, solicits the cooperation of members of the public to volunteer useful information as the command cannot do it alone.

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