Nasarawa Police Arrests 3 Civil Servants

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The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested three staff of the state Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development, in connection with the theft of a 250 KVA power generator.

The command’s spokesman, DSP Kennedy Idirisu, confirmed the arrest on Wednesday in Lafia.

Idirisu said that the suspects were arrested on Tuesday, following a report of the disappearance of the generator from Deddere Water Works in Obi Local Government Area of the state on Sunday.

He said that preliminary investigation implicated the supervisor of the water project and two other staff of the ministry working at Deddere water works.

“The suspects have been moved from the Obi Police Division to the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (CIID) for further interrogation. We aim to recover the missing power plant.

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NAN recalls that the state Commissioner for Water Resources and Rural Development, Dr Abdulkarim Kana, had on Tuesday told journalists that the newly installed power plant at the waterworks was stolen.

Kana decried the high rate of vandalism of water installations across the state and called for citizen’s collective responsibility to safeguard them.

He said that of the over 1,500 boreholes sank by government in rural communities in the state, more than 600 had been vandalised.

“Our pipelines, solar power panels and pump heads are also being vandalised and the communities are not doing anything about it.

“Protection of these public facilities should be a collective responsibility and not a duty for government alone,” Kana had said.

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