Fifteen people who steal at least 255 railway slippers from different locations of Benue state within the past two months have been arrested by the Police.
Tunji Akingbola, Commissioner of Police in the state made this known Thursday at his maiden press briefing in Makurdi, the state capital.
“Within the period of my resumption in the state in August, 15 people specialized in vandalizing critical infrastructure had been arrested with 255 railway slippers.”
“20 suspects were also arrested for robbery while another 20 were for cultism, others held in custody for banditry among other crimes,” Akingbola said.
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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