The police command in Borno says it has arrested six
suspects over an attempt to steal three train coaches at the Maiduguri railway
terminus.
Lawan Yusuf, the Borno commissioner of police, said suspects
were arrested on Saturday after a distress call about the attempted theft of
the train coaches.
Yusuf said one Aliyu Mai Nasara, the principal suspect, was
accosted while coordinating the loading of three coaches into trucks.
“There was a distress call received from railway quarters.
Loader trailers were sighted at the railway terminus in Maiduguri evacuating
and loading properties belonging to NRC,”
Yusuf told NTA.
“The properties
include; three coaches. On the receipt of that information, the divisional
police officer mobilised his men behind railway quarters.
“One Aliyu Mai Nasara was arrested. Mai Nasara claimed that
he is the director of the north-east district headquartered in Bauchi and that
he was assigned by the MD of the Nigerian railway corporation to come and
evacuate coaches to Plateau State, where according to him, the railway
corporation wanted to hand it over to plateau state government, to initiate
intra railway transport within Jos metropolis.
“But the suspect has no identity to certify his claim that
he’s actually the district manager of the northeast district Bauchi.”
The police commissioner said the principal suspect is now at
large.
However, Mahmood Yakubu, spokesperson of the NRC, said that
the news was not true.
In a statement issued on X, the management of NRC also
debunked the attempted theft of the train coaches.
“The attention of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has
been drawn to a news trending on numerous social media platforms purported to
have emanated from Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), in which it was
reported that attempt was made to steal NRC coaches from Maiduguri,” the
statement reads.
“NRC management
wishes to clarify this as erroneous, stating that the said coaches are
officially being moved to NRC Running Shed Jos, Plateau State to be overhauled.
With the view of putting them back to operation. NRC is trying to extend Rail
Mass Transit all over the country.”
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