Police arrest suspects, recover 285 vandalized pipelines in Adamawa [PHOTO]

Operatives of the Nigeria Police nether the Inspector-General of Police Special Task Force connected Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering and the IGP X-Squad has arrested 7 suspects and recovered 285 vandalized Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, pipelines successful Adamawa State.

This is contained successful a connection by the Force Public Relations Officer, Anietie Iniedu, on Tuesday.

Iniedu said acting connected credible quality received connected 9th July 2026, operatives intercepted a J5 autobus afloat loaded with suspected vandalized NNPC pipelines on the Yola–Numan Road successful Adamawa State.

According to him, the conveyance was driven by 1 Paul Joshua and accompanied by 1 Paul Ishiyaku.

He added that the cognition subsequently led to the apprehension of 7 suspects identified arsenic Haruna Usman, 28; Haruna Muhammed Sule, 30; Dabus Peter, 38; Ahmad Adamu, 19; Sadik Ibrahim, 31; Paul Joshua, 49; and Paul Ishiyaku, 48.

Iniedu stated that further searches conducted during the cognition resulted successful the betterment of 2 100 and eighty-five (285) pieces of vandalized pipelines, six (6) state cylinders, diggers, shovels, 1 J5 autobus with registration fig KRD 767 XC, bluish successful colour, and different instrumentality suspected to person been utilized successful the committee of the crime.

He reiterated that each recov...