2 cops, 12 others nabbed for vandalism

Nigerian Railway Police Command, yesterday, paraded 14 suspects, including two Policemen, who allegedly specialise in railway property theft and vandalism in some parts of the Eastern zone of the establishment.
Parading the suspects before journalists in Enugu, Area Commander in-charge of the Eastern District Police Area Command, Henry Njoku, said that the two policemen provided shield for the hoodlums, whose activities had led to the halting of operations of the Nigerian Railway in almost all its routes within the Eastern Corridor except for the Aba-PortHarcourt line.
Njoku said that the two policemen are currently going to face orderly room trial and if they are found wanting would be dismissed from service as well as charged to court as the other 12 suspects.
The Area Commander said that the feat was achieved by painstaking intelligence and investigation within the past two months, adding that most of the suspects were caught in the act on September 15, 2018, between 12 midnight and 2 am.
According to him, the vandals were caught stealing heavy irons of brake system control, wagon parts, wagon wheels, clips of rail slippers, rail slippers, armoured railway doors, zinc sheet of railway stations, rail cables among others .
He explained that “We are strategising to ensure that we put a stop to these growing trend of sabotage to the economy of the nation and denying the people of these part of the country opportunity to enjoy train services.
The property vandalised and stolen, including the ones recovered, will run into multimillions of dollars.’’ Recovered from the suspects include: five tricycles, a jeep, two mini-buses and two trucks, reportedly used for conveying the stolen items, as well as four gas cylinders and a big cutter said to be used for their operations

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