{"id":7857,"date":"2023-12-20T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nscdc-arrests-vandals-illegal-miners-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:02:44","slug":"nscdc-arrests-vandals-illegal-miners-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nscdc-arrests-vandals-illegal-miners-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCDC arrests vandals, illegal miners in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Federal Capital Territory Command, has arrested two vandals of railway infrastructure and 11 illegal miners as part of efforts to prevent vandalism and protect critical national assets and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The two railway vandals were arrested by the operatives of the Critical National Assets and Infrastructure Unit of the command for willfully vandalizing rail tracks and traffic lights in Wuye District of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the command, in partnership with the Nigerian Army, arrested eleven suspects involved in illegal mining activities at Izom, a community located at the boundary of the FCT and Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>While parading the suspects at the Command Headquarters, the FCT Commandant, Olusola Odumosu, said that the proactive measures of the command would serve as a deterrent to other criminals within the territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur effort is geared towards combating various forms of criminality, particularly vandalism of critical national assets and other public infrastructure, illegal mining activities, and among others within the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to demonstrate zero tolerance for vandalism, and there is no plan to retreat on this mission as they must all be brought to book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have vowed that there is no hiding place for evil perpetrators, so in this vein, active efforts are underway to apprehend their masterminds who are still at large,\u201d Odumosu warned.<\/p>\n<p>NSCDC arrests vandals, illegal miners in Abuja<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Federal Capital Territory Command, has arrested two vandals of railway infrastructure and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4660,384,15,1666],"tags":[32,387,180,1670],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja","category-metro","category-news","category-nscdc","tag-abuja","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-nscdc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}