NSCDC arrests scrap dealer, recovers stolen school property in Benin

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Edo State Command, has said that, pursuing quality information, its unit arrested a scrap trader and recovered schoolhouse spot successful Benin.

In a connection on Sunday, the command’s Public Relations Officer, CSC Ogbebor Efosa, said the combined team, made up of the Edo State Scrap Monitoring Team, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, and unit of the NSCDC Safe Schools initiative, connected June 25, 2026, astatine astir 10 americium embarked connected a regular schoolhouse monitoring workout wrong Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. The squad visited Oriohhene Primary School, Bolehole, wherever extended vandalism was discovered.

“Preliminary appraisal revealed that schoolroom chairs, air-conditioning units, and roofing sheets had been stolen, portion parts of the school’s reddish extortion had been vandalized by suspected transgression elements,” the connection said.

Following this, the monitoring squad stormed a scrap dump tract located astatine No. 40 Evbienwen Street, Iyaro, Benin City, and recovered vandalised roofing sheets and different items reasonably suspected to person be...