Tachia is a Tiv community in Keana Local Government Area (LGA) of Nasarawa State. When a team of journalists on tour of projects executed by the current
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Published 7 June 2021
The Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Nasarawa State Police Command, headed by CSP Anietie Eyoh, has arrested two suspects, Mohammed Abdullahi and Abubakar Nuhu, for allegedly vandalising railway slippers and attempting to bribe officers of the unit with the sum of N160,000.
In recent times, railway tracks and slippers have been vandalised in many parts of Nasarawa State, which made the police to launch a manhunt for those responsible.
One of the suspects explained that he was a trader dealing in food items and was contracted by his boss to accompany him to buy rail slippers from one Mr Godwin, who allegedly vandalised the items in Agyaragu Tofa, Lafia Local Government Area, and Angwan Alago in the Kadarko District, Keana Local Government Area of the state.