Police Arrest 15 Rail Track Vandals, Recover Vandalised Items

Police Arrest 15 Rail Track Vandals, Recover Vandalised Items 

Fifteen suspected rail track vandals were in the last sixty days arrested in different parts of Nigeria by policemen attached to the Railway Police Command.

This is just as the Commissioner of Police in charge of the command, Yetunde Longe, reiterated the commitment of the command to safeguard lives and properties around the rail tracks nationwide.

According to the police, three suspects were intercepted by the patrol team of the Railway Police Division upon credible tip-off by members of a vigilante group in Minna, Niger State.

Also, in Aba, four suspects – Michael Chukwuebuka, Chigozie Augustine, Onyekachi Abba, and Chukwuma Adumoha – were arrested in connection with the theft of railway pandrol slippers kept by the Chinese Construction Company (CCECC) for construction.

Upon investigation, the stolen items were recovered and handed over to the construction company.

Two fleeing suspects – Ridwan Olalekan and Sharafa Muritala – have also been arrested and charged to court by the Railway Criminal Investigation Department.

The suspects were initially spotted in a bush in Akwanga, Nasarawa State, where they vandalised about 72 rail track irons. On sighting the policemen, the suspects fled the scene and abandoned their operational trucks.

After an intense investigation, the suspects were arrested and charged to court. Both have been remanded in Ikoyi Correctional Centre.

Similarly, the Ilorin division of the Command, Kwara state, also apprehended two suspected vandals – Yahaya Mohammed and Jumai Sule with 113 pandrol clips at Sabongida area of Jebba during a routine patrol.