Twelve suspected rail track vandals were apprehended at Angwan Yara in the Keana Local GovernmentIn Ogun on June 30, a car rams into a truck, killing three and injuring one Area of the state by military personnel from the Four Special Forces Command, Doma, Nasarawa State.
Maj., the command’s interim Deputy Director of Army Public Relations, This was said by Joseph Afolasade at a press conference on Friday.
During a routine patrol on June 15, 2023, he stated, “Five suspected rail track vandals were intercepted at an abandoned railway station between the Angwan Yara and Agyaragu communities of Keana LGA.”
“The suspects were captured with an enormous amount of rail tracks stacked in two 12-tire trucks. Throughout the examination, the soldiers captured extra seven suspects on June 18 who made confession booth proclamations.
They admitted to having played various roles in the theft of the rail tracks and mentioned the names of some prominent people in the states of Nasarawa and Plateau as being members of the syndicate. Police deploy 5,750 personnel in Nasarawa.
According to Afolasade, the suspects offered officers of the command a bribe of N5 million in an effort to be freed by the Army, but they were turned down.
According to what he stated, “they offered to give our personnel N5 million to allow them to go with the rail tracks, but our men rejected the money and arrested them.”
The Maj. Gen., Commander of the Special Forces, was also mentioned by the Acting Deputy Director. The suspects were to be handed over to officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for further investigation and prosecution, according to General Owyinka Soyele.
