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NSCDC LAGOS STATE COMMAND FOILS ATTEMPT TO VANDALIZE NNPC PIPELINES IN ABORU, RECOVERS PRODUCT, KEGS AND IMPLEMENTS.(PHOTOS).#PRESS RELEASE



NIGERIA SECURITY AND CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS ( NSCDC ).


LAGOS STATE COMMAND.


PRESS RELEASE.


3RD NOVEMBER, 2023.


NSCDC LAGOS STATE COMMAND FOILS ATTEMPT TO VANDALIZE NNPC PIPELINES IN ABORU, RECOVERS PRODUCT, KEGS AND IMPLEMENTS.



The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC ), Lagos Sttae Command, upon receiving credible intelligence, from the community members of Oju - emi, off Ola mummy junction, Aboru, Agbado Oke - Odo Local Council Development Authority, moved, to foil attempt, by suspected, vandals, who intended, to  compromise the NNPC pipeline in the aforementioned, area.


The dastardly, act of these unscrupulous elements was foiled, at exactly, 0530hrs, at the aforementioned, location, by the gallant and tactical operation of the anti - vandal unit of the command led, by Assistant Commandant of Corps Abdullahi Jubril Musa.


The State Commandant, NSCDC, Lagos State Command, Commandant of Corps Usman Ishaq Alfadarai, Mfr, fdc, in a bid to protect lives and critical national assets and infrastructure of government immediately, ordered, the cordoning of the compromised point, patrol and robust surveillance of the entire area. He has also engaged, community leaders, religious bodies, youths, the NNPC and other relevant stakeholders, on the need to collaborate, with the Corps in fulfilling our noble mandate, in the area and by extension the entire Lagos state.


The gallant team of the command, recovered, petroleum products, forty seven kegs, hoes, hammers, pliers, sacks and other items used, by the suspected, vandals to compromise the pipeline. The suspects however, dashed through the bush path and ran away for their dear lives upon sighting our men.


The NSCDC, Lagos State Commandant, while parading the exhibits recovered, at the scene, said, through his Public Relations Officer, today that perpetrators and unrepentant criminal elements, who have made economic sabotage their only source of income, should desist, from it or meet their waterloo and face the wrath of the law.


Signed.

DSC Abolurin Oluwaseun, fcss, mpa, amb., anipr,

Civil Defence PRO,

Lagos State Command.

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