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Published 17 March 2021
The Kogi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has detained some of its officers on duty when five suspects arrested for illegal oil bunkering escaped from detention.
The state Commandant of the agency, Samuel Maigari, who confirmed this to our correspondent on Tuesday, vowed to fish out those behind the jailbreak.
Our correspondent gathered that five suspects — Hassan Sani, Auwal Mohamed, Mohamed Mustapha, Mudashiru Abubakar and Ibrahim Rabiu — were arrested by the anti-vandals unit of the NSCDC for pipeline vandalisation along the Abuja-Lokoja Road last Thursday.
They were said to have successfully carried out the crime and were ferrying the products to the North in two big trucks when they were intercepted by operatives of the anti-vandals unit.