The Nigerian Police has reportedly released Alh. Yusuf Mada, an aide to Governor Abdullahi A. Sule of Nasarawa State on bail, barely few days after his arrest.
Mada who serves Governor Sule as Special Adviser on Infrastructures was arrested by the police alongside a Chinese national,three security officers and ten (10) others over alleged vandalization of railway tracks and slippers in Keana and Lafia Local Government Areas of the state.
Parading the suspect in Lafia, CP Emmanuel Longe vowed to spare no one involved no matter how highly placed.
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The commissioner explained that Mada and others had been in the business of buying and selling railway tracks from suspected vandals but luck ran out on them when the police got a tip-off on the criminal act and mobilised for their arrest.
“The command developed a strategic anti-vandalism template to arrest the tide of this unwholesome scenario. It is gratifying to note that this template paid off when police operatives swooped on the vandals at their theatre of operation while vandalising and carting away railway tracks/slippers along Agyaragu Tofa in the Lafia Local Government Area and Angwan Alago of Kadarko district in the Keana Local Government Area,” CP Longe said.
Reacting however, the governor’s aide said he was not aware that the items sold to him were vandalised.
“I am a businessman and I am into general property. I had an agent who supplied these things to me and I believed in him.
“The agent died last month in an accident along Akwanga/Nasarawa Eggon Road. It was the first time they brought the railway tracks and slippers to me. After buying, I sold it for N3.6m,” he said.
Meanwhile, the state government has condemned the act allegedly committed by the aide, describing it as an act of economic sabotage.
They charged the police to deal decisively with anyone found guilty to serve as deterrent to others.
