THE Police Command in Enugu State has arrested two suspected
transformer vandals, whose activities had kept some communities in the state in
a blackout.
The police also recovered up-risers cables, armoured cables
and some other components of a transformer from the suspects.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu,
said in a statement on Tuesday in Enugu that the vandals were arrested on June
23.
Amaraizu noted that the feat was achieved by police
operatives on `stop and search’ duties through intelligence information and
partnership of the members of the public.
He gave the names of the vandals as Jude Chibuoke and
Chigozie Egwuonwu.
The police spokesman said that the suspects had been in the
habit of vandalising electricity transformers in Udi Local Government Area and
its environs.
Amaraizu noted that the vandalisation has, however, left the
communities without power supply for months.
“They were arrested in Umumba axis of Ezeagu Local
Government Area of the state with the exhibits by police operatives as they
were trying to make their way to Onitsha to sell the items.
“Further intelligence gathered revealed that the suspect,
Chibuoke, is a notorious electricity transformer vandal, who specialises on
targeting isolated community electricity transformers without power supply and
vandalising their components.
“He takes the same vandalised and stolen items to his
standby buyers in Onitsha; just as Egwuonwu assists and conveys him and
exhibits with a motorcycle,’’ he said.
Amaraizu noted that the state Commissioner of Police, Mr
Suleiman Balarabe, had directed for an investigation into the incident with a
view to unmasking more suspects involved in the alleged unwholesome act.
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