REPORTER: UCHE NDEKE
An Awka Chief Magistrate Court has ordered the remand of Nweke Friday, a suspected telecommunications mast vandal, in the Awka custodial centre after he was arraigned by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Anambra State Command.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday, 1st October 2026 at at Esther Obiakor Estate, Agu-Awka, by operatives of the Command.
He was arraigned on a three count charge of stealing , criminal conspiracy and illegal removal of components of a telecommunication mast.
The offences contravened Sections 135, 353(2), and 495(a) of the Criminal Code, Revised Laws of Anambra State of Nigeria, 1991, as amended.
Reacting to the Magistrate Court’s decision, the NSCDC Commandant in Anambra State Maku Olatunde, reiterated the Corps’s zero-tolerance stance for vandalism.
