NSCDC busts syndicate recycling stolen railway, NNPC infrastructure in Kaduna

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has uncovered a blase transgression syndicate allegedly progressive successful the theft, concealment and recycling of captious nationalist assets and infrastructure.

DAILY POST recalls that a caller viral video connected societal media showed extended vandalism of the recently laid Kaduna-Kano railway tracks arsenic good arsenic aged obstruction infrastructure.

Following the incident, the Commandant General of the Corps, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, directed the Special Intelligence Squad (SIS) and the Kaduna State Command to place and apprehension those responsible.

In a connection issued connected Wednesday by the National Public Relations Officer of the NSCDC, ACC Afolabi Babawale, the corps said operatives carried retired a targeted cognition connected Tuesday, May 12, 2026.

According to the statement, the SIS, nether the enactment of Commandant Apollos Dandaura and successful collaboration with the Kaduna State Command, stormed and sealed the Kaduna subdivision of Inner Galaxy Steel Company located successful Birnin Yero, Igabi Local Government Area.

“The cognition followed weeks of intensive, intelligence-led surveillance. Investigations revealed that the institution operated a transgression smokescreen, posing arsenic a scrap-buying entity portion really serving arsenic a hub for receiving vandalised railway materials, NNPC pipes, and Water Board infrastructure,” the connection said.

The NSCDC alleged that...