The police in Lagos have arrested two men suspected to specialise in vandalising and stealing railway track.
They were said to have been arrested in the early hours of Monday January 30 while conveying in a private car some pieces of cut off rail track to an unknown destination.
Spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed the arrest of the two suspects on his Twitter handle.
He stated, ”At about 1am today, a patrol team from Ijora Badia Division intercepted a Mitsubishi Lancer car conveying vandalised railway tracks. The two occupants of the vehicle have been arrested. Investigation is ongoing.”
Some incidents of train derailment in parts of the country have been traced to sudden damage to rail track suspected to have been done by vandals.
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