NSCDC Nabs ‘One Chance Suspects’, Power Installation Vandals

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) yesterday paraded a four-man robbery gang, popularly called ‘one chance’, comprising three men and a woman, which specialises in robbing passengers plying the Jabi-Old Karmo road.

Four other power infrastructure vandals that specialise in vandalising Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) installations, owners of National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) at Gwagwalada area council were also paraded.

Driver of the gang, Haruna Amadu, a father of three and indigene of Kogi State, who said he recruited the other three suspects through phone calls, said he was pushed into crime by poverty.

The other suspects, a mother of three,  Nwakaego Augustine,  42, from Abia  State, Chidebere Nwam, 36, from Ebonyi State and Kingsley  Udoh, 35, from Abia state, all confessed to the crime and argued strongly that they were conmen and not a ‘one chance’ gang as they were being accused.

The four-man gang who were paraded alongside a Toyota Corolla saloon with Rivers State registration number AA 258 NEM, disclosed that their victims are usually taken to a rented apartment located at Old Karimo, behind Dantata quarters.

Nwakaego who disclosed that she joined the team since 2011 after her husband’s demise to enable her fend for her family begged to be pardon.

“I am a 42-year-old widow and a mother of three. I do not derive joy in carrying out this criminal act. I have never drugged or killed any victim since I joined this trade. We only deceive our victims into believing that we have money to share after which we tell them that they must sponsor a cleansing exercise before such monies could be shared.  We are basically 419ners,” she said.

The FCT Commandant of the NSCDC, Alhaji Aminu  Abdullahi Kofarsoro who paraded the suspects attributed the stride to the corps’ proactiveness and readiness to send vandals out of business in the FCT, whose activities he said were frustrating government efforts at generating adequate and appreciable Megawatts for its citizens.

On his part, the Assisatant General Manager Administration of the NDPHC, Mr. Emmanuel Mabur, who led a team of five technical officers from the company to the command  to identify the seized  items said the destruction of these five towers (0.21- 0.25) had a ripple down effect on the nation’s economy.

- Leadership

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