Niger Governor Goes Tough On Vandalism Of Public, Private Property

Niger State politician Mohammed Umaru Bago has said helium volition beryllium pugnacious connected scrap dealers who vandalise nationalist and backstage spot to bargain scraps.

The governor, who met with the enactment of the authorities section of the Association of Scrap and Waste Dealers Employers of Nigeria yesterday, decried the expanding incidence of outright vandalism perpetrated by immoderate scrap dealers’ agents successful the state.

He said the gathering was called to find a lasting solution to the persistent vandalism of structures and theft of nationalist and backstage spot crossed the state.

He said the authorities volition not fold its hands and let transgression elements nether the guise of scrap traders to proceed defacing structures and stealing valuables unhindered.

The politician recalled a concern successful which helium personally caught immoderate of them astatine the sites of the ongoing five-star edifice and however helium swung into enactment to nip the inclination successful the bud.

He said the perpetrators of the amerciable scrap deals did not spare respective operation sites, including the IBB University Teaching Hospital tract successful Minna and roadworthy operation sites.

Bago, therefore, urged the leaders of the scrap dealers to sanitise the relation by devising means of identifying its members and helping to food retired the atrocious eggs among them.

He said different gathering with each the captious stakeholders of the relation crossed the 25 section authorities areas and heads of information agencies successful the authorities volition beryllium held to reappraisal the association’s operational guidelines. He warned that an enforcement measure volition beryllium sent to the State Assembly successful that regard, and violators volition beryllium prosecuted.