Traffic officials nabbed for stealing palliative rice 

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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Oyo state command, has arrested three officials of the Oyo State Road Traffic Management Agency (OYRTMA) for alleged stealing of 67 bags of maize COVID-19 palliatives.

The NSCDC commandant in the state, Iskilu Akinsanya, paraded the suspects on Thursday at the command headquarters, Agodi, Ibadan.

Akinsanya said the suspects were arrested by the NSCDC officials on Wednesday at about 9pm at the Oyo State Secretariat as the items were being loaded.

The commandant said that the NSCDC report had it that some people were in the habit of breaking into government secretariat ware house to loot some items. “Our effort yielded result yesterday (Wednesday) around 21:00hrs. The suspects were arrested loading the items meant for the people in the state as palliatives.

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“This has been happening for a long time and we have been trying to pin them down and we are able to arrest them yesterday. This is what we have being talking about, government meant well for the society but there are some unscrupulous people in the society that want to truncate government’s effort,” he said.

Akinsanya said NSCDC in the state was ever ready to flush out criminals out of the society and would not allow this kind of bad attitude to continue to happen.

He assured the good people of Oyo state of adequate security and urged them to continue given them useful information that would assist in quickly getting the criminals out of the society.

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The commandant said investigation on the matter still continued and that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigation was completed.

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