The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has sealed all branches of Inner Galaxy Steel Company and Jiuxing Integrity Industrial Limited for alleged involvement in terrorism financing in Nigeria.
The NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Babatunde Afolabi, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
Afolabi said the corps secured a court order to seal the companies for allegations ranging from: conspiracy to commit felony, damage and theft of railway infrastructure and concealment of stolen property.
He added that the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad (CG’S SIS) recovered several illegally obtained and vandalised government assets and infrastructure during a raid of one of the companies.
The statement read: “Armed with valid search warrants and court orders the operatives stormed the Birnin Yero facility in Igabi LGA, Kaduna State.
“Confession from arrested staff revealed a coordinated logistics network where vandalised national infrastructure was routinely moved to the company’s headquarters in Aba and other branches for melting.
“The stolen steel was subsequently recycled into commercial products such as nails and roofing sheets.
The spokesman said the management of the companies, who are Chinese nationals, had been formally summoned by the NSCDC but are yet to comply.
According to him, the NSCDC Commandant General, Ahmed Audi, had directed that every suspect found culpable or accomplice to the allegations, be made to face the full wrath of the law.
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