NSCDC PARADES 4 SUSPECTED VANDALS OF RAILWAY EQUIPMENT IN ENUGU
REPORTER: CHRISTIAN NWANGENE
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NL(NSCDC), Enugu State Command, has paraded four suspects for allegedly vandalizing rail line within Aninri and Nkanu-West Local Government Areas.
While parading the suspects, the Commandant, Mr. Afrika Ezenyimulu, told journalists that the suspects were apprehended on April 15, by the Anti-Vandalism Squad of the command in collaboration with the Nigeria hunters and forest security services, as they were with equipment belonging to the railways corporation.
Mr. Ezenyimulu explained that on interrogation, one of the suspects, Monday Onyeabor, gave the names of other three members of his gang, Ejike Ogbonna; Amobi Okolie and Chukwuka Ekwe, who were all 27 years old and from Oduma in Aninri Local Government Area.
According to the NSCDC boss, it is based on his statement that a manhunt for the three was conducted which resulted in their arrest.
“During the arrest, one of the suspects, Amobi Okolie, claimed to be innocent of the crime, but confessed that he had sometime in the recent past assisted other suspects in transporting vandalized materials, which at that time he claimed was unknown to him to be products of vandalism.
“He was however found to be in possession of syringes and a pipe, which he confessed he used in sniffing the infamous Methamphetamine, popularly known in the local parlance as Mkpurummiri,” the NSCDC boss stated.
He said other items recovered from the suspects included a cutlass and a motorcycle.
Mr. Ezenyimulu lamented that vandals through their actions had frustrated the means of transporting food produce from Aninri Local Government, reiterating the command’s resolve to fish out perpetrators of such acts.
The NSCDC Commandant told correspondent that investigation had been intensified by his men to unravel other culprits in the chain of the criminal act.
The NSCDC commandant also appealed to parents to be cautious and mindful of their children’s activities while calling on the public to be security conscious and report any person indulging in vandalism to security agencies.
