He also said the commandant took over from Samuel Dan, who had been recalled to the national headquarters.
He said that when the vehicles were stopped, it was discovered that they neither had their waybills nor licences permitting them to deal in mining.
He also said that the command had expanded its intelligence network with a view to nip in the bud any security threat in the state during the period.
NSCDC has deployed 1,50O officers to provide security in Edo during the Eid-el-Fitri celebrations.
The operatives were drawn from Operations, Counter Terrorism, Disaster Management, Anti Vandal, and Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Nuclear Units of the NSCDC.
The 63-year-old man was said to have infected the victim with an undisclosed sexually transmitted disease.
