The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has smashed a gang involved in the theft, concealment and recycling of critical national assets and infrastructure.
This comes after a viral video on social media showed extensive vandalism of the newly laid KadunaKano railway tracks and of old rail infrastructure.
The NSCDC Commandant General Ahmed Audi then ordered the Special Intelligence Squad (SIS) and the Kaduna State Command to arrest those responsible.
In a statement yesterday, the corps said it carried out a targeted operation on May 12, leading to the arrest of 12 suspects during the raid.
It said the SIS, under Commandant Apollos Dandaura and in collaboration with the Kaduna State Command, sealed the Kaduna branch of Inner Galaxy Steel Company in Birnin Yero in the Igabi Local Government Area.
The statement said: “The operation followed weeks of intensive, intelligence-led surveillance.
