The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence
Corps on Thursday said it had arrested five people suspected to be
dealing in adulterated fertilizer.
The Commandant of the NSCDC in Bauchi
State, Ibrahim Raji, stated this while briefing newsmen at the Command’s
headquarters in Bauchi.
He disclosed that the arrest was made at Gudum area of the Bauchi metropolis on Tuesday, August 2, at about 12:00noon.
He said “The suspects were arrested in
the process of mixing fertilizer with lump stone/sand to produce the
adulterated products with the intention of re-bagging it thereafter.”
Raji gave the names of the suspects as
Auwal Mohammed (27), Mukhtar Yusuf (21) and Jafar Auwal, (21) all of
unguwan Doya, Bauchi.
Others, according to him, include
Abdulrazak Yakubu (23) of central market, Bauchi and Abdulrahman
Mubarak (20) of shekal, Bauchi.
He said the items recovered from them
include more than 100 bags of fertilizer, one tiger generator set, three
pickup vans used in conveying the products, one sealing machine and
several empty sacks.
He said investigation was still ongoing.
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