NSCDC raids suspected vandals hideout in Badagry, recovers PMS in plastic containers, other items
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), Lagos State Command, Badagry Division, has raided the hideouts of some suspected vandals and recovered illegal products found in kegs, sacks and plastic containers.
This was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the Spokesman for the Lagos Command, Oluwaseun Abolurin.
It was gathered that the operations was carried out through credible and actionable intelligence gathered from concerned citizens of Badagry.
However, exhibits recovered, from the operation carried out by the Badagry Divisional office, led, by Chief Superintendent of Corps Ekunola Gbenga include the followings: seventy ( 70 ) yellow kegs of twenty – five litres ( 25ltrs ), One ( 1 ) fifteen ( 15 ) litres keg, 1 ten ( 10 ) litres keg, 6 five ( 5 ) litres keg, two hundred and fifty ( 250 ) big and seventy ( 70 ) plastic bottles, three ( 3 ) small sacks of Petroleum Motor Spirit ( PMS ). Other exhibits include; 1 motorcycle seat and 1 tank.
The State Commandant, Mr Adedotun Keshinro, seized the meaningful seizure, by his personnel at the Badagry axis, to avow his zero tolerance approach towards oil pipeline vandalism, syphoning of oil products and other forms of economic sabotage, by unscrupulous elements in the state.
He stated that the seizure was in line with the unflinching efforts, of the Commandant General, NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, to rid the nation of economic saboteurs, vandals and oil thieves hampering the wheel of progress in the downstream sector of the nation’s economy.
Keshiro further stressed that the Command has beefed up its intelligence and operational strategies, to respond to the activities of the elements, who may want to exhibit their desperation for illicit money at all cost, by carrying out their unpatriotic and dastardly acts possible of jeopardizing the good and developmental policies of government on the nations economy.
He directed the relevant department to take necessary actions and ensure that the fleeing culprits were apprehended and brought to book in the short possible time.
