The Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted a Mitsubishi Canter truck with registration number SUL-51-ZY loaded with a large quantity of railway locomotive parts along the Minna-Bida Highway in Niger State….CONTINUE READING...CONTINUE READING
The items were suspected to be the property of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC).
The Comptroller in charge of Niger/Kogi Area Command, Busayo Kadejo, disclosed this in Minna, on Friday when he handed over the seized materials to the Niger State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
Kadejo disclosed that the interception of the truck was carried out by the customs surveillance patrol team along the Minna-Bida Highway.
Narrating the encounter of the patrol team with the suspected vandals, the comptroller said the driver and other occupants of the truck, sensing imminent danger when flagged down and fearing possible arrest, “took to their heels and abandoned the vehicle”.
He noted that the vehicle was conveying vandalised railway locomotive parts, believed to be the property of the NRC, adding that it was not only criminal but an act of economic sabotage.
According to him, having sought and obtained necessary approval from the Comptroller General of Customs, the command decided to hand over the intercepted vehicle with railway locomotive parts to its sister agency, NSCDC, for further action.
The comptroller maintained that handover of the seized vehicles to the NSCDC was done in the spirit of inter-agency collaboration in the fight against criminal and criminalities in our society.
He commended the officers and men of the surveillance patrol team who intercepted the truck, noting the damage and loss that the NRC might have incurred by the action of these callous vandals and economic saboteurs….CONTINUE READING
