The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 13 suspected railway vandals with large quantities of long rails and sleepers worth 800 million naira.

According to the statement signed by the Corps spokesman, Babawale Afolabi, the suspects were arrested by the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad.

The suspects were paraded alongside five trucks conveying the large quantities of vandalized rails and sleepers at the NSCDC Headquarters in Abuja.

Afolabi said the arrests took place around the Manchock area of Kaura Local Government Area, the Zonkwa area in Zango Kataf LGA, and the Kaffanchan area in Jama’a LGA of Kaduna State.