Five arrested for stealing Warri-Itakpe new rail track in Delta
Published 14 May 2021
FIVE middle-aged men have been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police in Delta State for allegedly vandalising the newly rehabilitated rail track of the Nigeria Railway Corporation along its Warri-Itakpe axis.
Police sources alleged that the suspected vandals maliciously cut several sections of the track around Kilometre 30, Adogo (Kogi State) section of the rail.
Officials of the NRC reportedly discovered the vandalisation two days ago.
Recall that the rail project was inaugurated by the Federal Government in September 2020.
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FIVE middle-aged men have been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police in Delta State for allegedly vandalising the newly rehabilitated rail track of the Nigeria Railway Corporation situated along its Warri-Itakpe axis.
Police sources alleged that the suspected vandals maliciously cut several sections of the track around Kilometre 30, Adogo, Kogi State section of the rail.
Officials of the NRC reportedly discovered that the vandalisation took place two days ago.
Meanwhile, the rail project was inaugurated by the Federal Government in September 2020 and it has been transporting passengers from Itakpe in Kogi State to Warri in Delta State since its inauguration.
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Federal Government has been tasked to review the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), under the supervision of the Ministry of Transportation The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), has announced the arrest of two persons suspected of vandalising rail tracks along the Kaduna-Zaria rail line. Haruna Sabo, the NRC Northern District Engineer, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Saturday in Zaria He said that the corporation had deployed patrol teams along the rail line following repeated vandalism of the rail tracks. Sabo said those arrested were members of a syndicate that specialized in removing rail clips that hold sleepers and rail tracks together.
Last week, a train loaded with water pipes from Lagos to Zaria derailed around Unguwar Kanawa axis of Kaduna, opposite Sultan Bello Mosque as a result of vandalism.
However, while parading the syndicate on Friday evening in Zaria, the Northern District Engineer, Zaria, Haruna Sabo said the thieves were arrested by staff of the district office at Sayi-Dumbi section along Zaria-Kaduna axis on Friday.
Suspects, Sabitu Kabiru, in black shirt and Sabi’u Shehu in red shirt, holding bits of the vandalised lines
Sabo said the railway inspection and maintenance unit has provided and assigned personnel to man trenches of rail lines on daily basis adding that the personnel were expected to be on patrol of such trenches.
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