NSCDC dismantles notorious gang at Ebonyi/Benue border, recovers arms

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ebonyi State Command, has dismantled a hideout allegedly used by a criminal syndicate terrorising communities along the Ebonyi-Benue border. The raid, which dismantled a key operational base for hoodlums and cultists around Izzi Local Government Area, followed weeks of intelligence gathering and surveillance by security operatives. Briefing journalists on the operation at the Command Headquarters in Abakaliki on Thursday, the Ebonyi State Commandant, Francis Nnadi, disclosed that the operation was carried out by a joint team comprising operatives of the Command's Intelligence and Investigation Department and the Commandant's Special Squ...