NSCDC denies auctioning seized trucks, trailers

The Bayelsa State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has distanced itself from a report linking it with auctioning of seized trucks and trailers.

State Commandant, Mr. Desmond Agu, verbally expressed in Yenagoa, on Monday that he had asked the investigative unit of the command to probe the report and unmask perpetrators behind it.

The commandant verbalized it was lamentable that a “report of such magnitude” could be indited without verifying from his command.

Agu described the development as a deliberate ploy by persons against the anti-vandalism war of the command to drag its image to the mire.

Describing the allegation as maleficent and mischievous, he asked members of the public to discountenance it.

Agu verbally expressed, “We do not have any 14 trucks to sell or auction. We have no bicycle, motorcycle or any other conveyance let alone trucks to sell.

“We have commenced probing the matter to get to the root of the illuding report which is capable of tarnishing the image of the NSCDC in the country.

“The command has activated its investigative machinery to fish out persons abaft the publication and to ken their motives. Such persons will be dealt with within the ambit of the law.”

Agu, who described the NSCDC as a bureaucratic organisation, expounded that auctioning of such items could not have been done without the involution of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company.

He, however, verbalized the command had in its custody three trucks which had already been marked as exhibits in perpetual court cases with two Nigerian firms.