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Nigerian Police Arrest Army Personnel, 13 Others For Vandalising Rail Tracks

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Suleiman works with the Nigerian Army Central Ammunition Division.

Upon their arrest by the Railway Police Command, three vans loaded with railway slippers, steel and clips have been recovered from the suspects.

The suspects have been arrested on April 27, 2022, by the Kafanchan divisional headquarters of the command, alongside six completely different suspects.

They’ve been alleged to have been loading plenty of rail plates of steel into two vans in a bush near Camuru Station, Katchia Native Authorities Area of the state when the policemen swooped on them.

Identities of various suspected vandals are Idris Bawa, Idris Musa, Shamsu Abdulahi, Anthony Moses and Yunana Gaius.

Three weeks earlier, the Kafanchan Railway Police Division of the command, reportedly intercepted a cement truck completely loaded with railway slippers alongside Bankin-Kaninkon-Kogi avenue.

On sighting the police, the suspected vandals fled the scene abandoning the truck.

All through the investigation, one Ahmed Tanko, who resides in Dangoma Village Jam’a Native Authorities Area of Kaduna State was arrested and reportedly confessed to the crime.

Within the meantime, the Commissioner of Police, Railway Police Command headquarters, Yetunde Longe, said efforts have been being intensified to apprehend his fleeing accomplices.

She added that completely different suspects have been arrested by the Kano division of the Railway command, the Dugbe Railway Police Division, Ibadan and the Offa division of the Railway Command, Kwara State.