NSCDC officers arrested over colleague’s death as police discover N2bn in suspect’s account

The Nigeria Police Force has arrested astatine slightest 3 officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Mining Marshals Unit allegedly progressive successful the decease of their elder colleague, Agada Levi Agada, during an cognition successful Nasarawa State.

The police, successful a connection said its Force Intelligence Department, FID, began an probe into Agada’s decease aft receipt of a petition filed by the lawyer to the family.

The connection said the arrested NSCDC unit are Simeon Yakubu Anyebe, Ibrahim Ayefu and Iwodi Obochi.

The deceased was reportedly changeable portion connected work during an cognition astatine Rafin Gabas successful the Agwada country of Nasarawa State.

The constabulary besides disclosed that investigators traced implicit N2 cardinal to a slope relationship belonging to an NSCDC Mining Marshal, with efforts ongoing to find the quality of the transactions and immoderate links to different suspects.

According to the police, respective Mining Marshal unit were invited for questioning but failed to honour the invitations.

“We traced implicit N2 cardinal into the Zenith Bank relationship of Sergea...