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Governor Monday Okpbeholo of Edo has announced plans to modulate the activities of scavengers and scrap dealers successful the authorities to curb vandalism and different related crimes.
Okpbeholo made this known erstwhile helium received successful his bureau successful Benin the caller Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Edo Command, Commandant Akintayo Ayinla.
The politician said that plans are underway to nonstop a measure to the State House of Assembly to modulate the operations of scavengers and scrap dealers.
Okpebholo condemned the increasing incidents of theft and vandalism linked to their operations, stating that specified activities were not acceptable.
“The mode they spell astir stealing robust rods and removing and destroying spot belonging to the radical is not acceptable astatine all.
“I cognize that with your zeal and knowing of the state’s terrain, you volition beryllium capable to instrumentality enactment to extremity this menace,” the politician said.
Okpebholo pledged the authorities government’s afloat enactment to the NSCDC successful its efforts to curb vandalism and modulate scrap and scavenging activities crossed the state.
He extended his condolences to the NSCDC implicit the passing of the precocious Commandant Gbenga Joseph, describing the quality of his decease arsenic a shock.
“Let maine invited you to Government House archetypal of all. I condole with you erstwhile again connected the passing of our person and brother, your predecessor.
“Having said this, I privation to invited you backmost to Edo. With the accusation I person earlier me, you are not caller to the state. So, I tin accidental that you are a lad of the soil,” Okpebholo said.
Earlier, the caller NSCDC Commandant, Ayinla, commended the politician for his administration’s accordant enactment to information agencies successful the state, done the proviso of vehicles, fiscal assistance and different gestures.
The commandant, who officially assumed bureau connected October 17, 2025, highlighted the expanding cases of vandalism associated with the scrap dealers and scavengers, including the theft of electrical cables, manhole covers and streetlight poles.
The NSCDC authoritative disclosed that the corps had commenced a census of scrap markets and scavenging points crossed the authorities to found a monitoring and power framework.
He appealed to the authorities to follow measures specified arsenic designating circumstantial areas for scrap markets, regulating their hours of operation, mandating registration and licensing of scrap dealers and restricting the handling of captious infrastructure materials.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the regularisation is aimed astatine establishing a monitoring and power model to forestall the escalation of vandalism and different crimes successful the state. (NAN)
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