Nigeria, May 14 -- Speaking during a briefing in Kaduna on Wednesday, NSCDC National Public Relations Officer, ACC Babawale Afolabi, said the operation was triggered by a viral video exposing widespread destruction of newly installed Kaduna-Kano rail tracks and other railway facilities across northern Nigeria.

Represented by the Deputy Public Relations Officer, SC Terzungwe Orndiir, Afolabi said the Commandant General of the corps, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, immediately ordered the CG's Special Intelligence Squad (SIS) and the Kaduna State Command to fish out those allegedly behind the act.

According to him, the operation, driven by intelligence gathering and coordinated by the Commander of the CG's SIS, Commandant Apollos Dandaura, alongsid...