Abuja NSCDC arrests five suspected vandals

Abuja NSCDC arrests five suspected vandals

Operatives of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command have arrested five suspected vandals at two different locations in Abuja City centre.

This was disclosed by the Public Relations Officer of the Command, Samuel Idoko.

He said: “Two of the suspects, Suleiman Ibrahim, Male, 17 years, from Kano State, and Abubakar Zakari, Male, 22 years also from Kano State were arrested around Wuse Market Bridge with iron poles by the operatives of Critical National Assets and Infrastructure (CNAI) Department of the Command on routine patrol

“The duo were trailed from the Arts and Culture Complex, Area 10, Garki, Abuja where they had vandalized the iron poles and were moving it to where they would sell to already known buyers.”

Idoko explained in a statement that the arrested vandals are currently undergoing interrogation that would lead to the arrest of the buyers of vandalised infrastructures in the city.

He said operatives of the anti-vandal unit of the Command acting on a tip-off, also arrested three suspected vandals around Durumi 2, Pantaker market, Abuja.

Idoko said the suspects, Aliyu Danladi, Male, 37 years from Kano State, Jamilu Abdulrahaman, Male, 25 years from Zamfara State, and Usman Ibrahim, Male, 38 years from Sokoto State, were arrested at about midnight while attempting to move suspected stolen and vandalised items to the place where they would be sold.

He said investigations revealed that the suspects are part of a syndicate and are always in possession of items suspected to have been vandalised or stolen.

He listed items recovered from them as three Electronic billboards, two Solar batteries, one Gas cylinder, one Generator set, one Refrigerator gas cylinder, and one Iron hammer.

Others are one Big Iron scissors, one Air Conditioner gas pipe, an Abuja vehicle plate number, two Iron Pinches, one Machete, and two Plastic drums.

The FCT Commandant of NSCDC, Olusola Odumosu, called for the regulation of pantaker markets in the FCT as they have become notorious places where vandalised and stolen items are sold.

“If we must rid the FCT of scavengers and vandals who are sabotaging the efforts of the government on infrastructural development, then, there is an urgent need to regulate pantaker markets in the Federal Capital Territory,” he said.