Army arrests pipeline vandals armed with AK-47 in Lagos
Soldiers have arrested 15 suspected pipeline vandals at Ilara and Imagbon areas of Ikorodu.
The suspected vandals who were armed with AK-47 rifles sporadically fired in the air on sighting the soldiers.
The General Officer Commanding 81 Division,Maj.-Gen. Enobong Udoh, disclosed this to newsmen at the weekend.
Items recovered include 10 vehicles, 31 containers loaded with refined products, 77 empty jerry cans, three coolers, nine mobile phones and substances suspected to be hard drugs.
Another set of 1,320 empty containers were discovered and destroyed.
The suspects are: Muftau Saliu, Segun Oladipupo, Akeem Adeniyi, Bukola Adepoju, Wasiu Jamiu, Abiodun Akindode, Azeez Ibrahim, and Matthew Oboregbeyen.
Another suspect, Taiwo Ayomide was arrested at Ademola Hotel beside Yasmin Mosque Sagamu.
