NSCDC To Auction Items Seized From Vandals In Anambra – Director General

                

The Director-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr Ade Abolurin, said that items seized from vandals by the organization would soon be auctioned to the public, reports odogwuemekaodogwu.com.

Abolurin made the disclosure after inspecting some items seized by the Anambra command of the organization on Friday in Awka. The seized items included vehicles, Tankers, drilling equipment , crude to mention but a few.

He said the confiscated items including articulated vehicles conveying adulterated petroleum products, cars, drums, pumping machines, among others would be sold to the public through a judicial process.

Abolurin, who led a Committee to assess the items, said that the exercise was in continuation of Federal Government’s determination to discourage oil theft and vandalism.

The NSCDC boss assured that the organisation will keep up to its task of preventing  vandalism of the country’s oil and gas, telecommunications and other critical infrastructures.

He urged the officers to uphold the high level of discipline and work sincerely without mortgaging their conscience.

In a remark, the Director of Public Prosecution, Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr Akinlolu Akintewi, explained that the inspection was the first step in the exercise of the committee’s mandate.

“The next step will be the involvement of auctioneers,” he said.