The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said on Tuesday that it apprehended two suspected pipeline vandals in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau.
It?s commandant in the state, Vincent Bature, said in Jos that the command had beefed up surveillance to curb the menace particularly around the NNPC depot in jos.
?I personally visited the NNPC depot here in the state due to the incessant reports we have been getting on the activities of the pipeline vandals.
?I assured them that surveillance would be intensified to apprehend the vandals, we had to strategies because we have been trained for it; we were able to apprehend these two men here.?
Bature said that the suspects would soon be handed over to the appropriate authority for further investigation.
He said that the act of pipeline vandalism had affected the state because fuel and diesel could not be pumped into the state.
?That is the major problem here, fuel and diesel cannot be pumped from Kaduna because the moment they pump, informants would tell them and they would go and vandalize the pipes to get the product.?
He, however, warned the vandals to desist from the act, adding that operatives of the command would always be on ground to curb such illegal activities in the state.
The commandant called on the traditional ruler in Bassa Local Government Area to sensitize his people to the danger inherent in such nefarious activities.
He describe the destruction of pipeline as ??a national sabotage??.
Bature listed 23 gallons of diesel, four motorcycles, basins and machetes as the items recovered from the suspects.
