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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), said its operatives person foiled pipeline vandal and recovered respective items allegedly utilized by the suspects astatine Obazagbon Community successful Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSC Ogbebor Efosa said connected July 16, 2026, astatine astir 1:00 p.m., operatives of the Command’s Anti-Vandal Unit, moving successful collaboration with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Edo State Governor connected Pipeline Security and Surveillance, were connected a regular patrol on the NNPC pipeline corridor astatine Obazagbon erstwhile they encountered a radical of suspected pipeline vandals excavating and vandalising the pipeline.”
According to the statement, the suspected criminals, upon sighting the information operatives, opened occurrence successful a hopeless effort to escape.
However, the superior occurrence powerfulness of unit of the corps overwhelmed them, forcing the criminals to wantonness the cognition and fly into the surrounding bush.
According to the statement, items recovered see 5 agelong state cylinders, 2 motorcycles, 2 shovels and 2 digger heads.
According to the statement, the betterment was different breakthrough arsenic the bid sustained efforts to support Nigeria’s captious nationalist assets and infrastructure.
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