Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaTruck Attack: NSCDC Arrests 19 Suspects In Kano

Operatives of the Kano State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested 19 suspects in connection with an attack on a truck loaded with hundreds of 50kg bags of Rice.

Ibrahim Abdullahi, the command’s Public Relations Officer who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, explained that the incident occurred along Zaria Road on Sunday at about 11.30 am.

Abdullahi said the suspects were arrested and 29 bags of 50kg of rice were recovered from them, adding that the driver of the truck and his assistants were rescued unhurt.

The statement reads in part: “A truck with plate number UGG 532 XA Kano, loaded with hundreds of bags of rice from Alhamsad Rice Mill, Sharada, Kano heading to Zaria, Kaduna State, has been attacked by hoodlums carting away substantial 50kg bags of rice loaded on the trailer”.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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