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Nasarawa NUJ condemns attacks on Police, INEC facilities
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By David Odama – Lafia
The Nasarawa State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Friday condemned the wave of attacks on INEC facilities and police formation and personnel across the country.
The condemnation which was contained in a communique signed by Union Secretary in the state, Sunday John, and made available to newsmen Friday in Lafia also noted with dismay the level at which the nation is drifting into anarchy called on leaders at all levels to demonstrate political will in nipping the country’s insecurity in the bud.
The union while advising Nigerians especially the youths to desist from destroying national assets lamented that, resources that would have been used for other development are being channled into rebuilding the destroyed property.
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Published 27 May 2021
The Nasarawa State Police Command said it has arrested the Special Adviser on Infrastructure to Governor Abdullahi Sule and 16 others over the vandalisation of railway tracks and slippers in Lafia and Keana Local Government Areas of the state.
Commissioner of Police, CP Bola Longe, made the disclosure on Thursday in Lafia, while parading the suspects at the Force Headquarters.
He explained that the suspects had been in the business of buying and selling railway tracks and slippers from other suspected vandals but luck ran out of them when the Police Command got informed of the criminal act and mobilized for their arrest.
By Umar Muhammed
The Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Police Force said it has apprehended the Special Adviser on infrastructure to Governor Abdullahi Sule and Chinese national over the vandalism of railway tracks and slippers in Lafia and Keana local government areas of the state.
Also arrested were 66 suspected kidnappers and armed robbers, who “have been terrorising the citizen of the state and its environs”.
Parading the governor’s aide at the command headquarters on Thursday alongside other suspected kidnappers and armed robbers, the commissioner of Police, Mr. Bola Longe, said all the suspects were arrested through the command’s developed strategic anti-vandalism template.