Police arrest vandals, recover N400m railway assets

The Nigeria Police Force said it has, done the Force Intelligence Department Special Tactical Squad, FID-STS, arrested suspects progressive successful large-scale vandalisation of captious nationalist infrastructure.

The constabulary besides said it recovered vandalised railway materials valued astatine implicit N400 million.

The suspects, Chisom Goodnews, 32, and Ahmed Adamu, 22, were arrested connected 9th April 2026 astatine astir 1800hrs successful Akwanga, Nasarawa State, pursuing credible intelligence.

A connection signed by DCP Anthony Okonkwo Placid, Force Public Relations Officer, said the cognition led to the interception of a trailer motortruck conveying astir sixty tonnes of vandalised railway tracks and sleepers.

“The materials were concealed nether sacks of groundnut shells successful a deliberate effort to evade detection portion being transported from Bauchi State to Ilorin, Kwara State,” the connection said.

It said that preliminary investigations revealed that the operator of the motortruck was contracted for the sum of N2.5 cardinal to transport the vandalised materials, portion further findings bespeak an organised proviso chai...