Three suspects who allegedly vandalized a transformer belonging to the BEDC have been arrested in Ekiti.
Ekiti State Police Command mentioned the suspects recognized as Ismaila Rafiu, Komolafe Shola and Aladegoke Busuyi had been alleged to have additionally vandalized cables connecting Isinbode-Ekiti to different communities within the native authorities.
The suspects had been arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Command with a Toyota Hiace Bus marked ABJ 872 WZ alongside Aramoko-Efon-Alaye freeway in Ekiti State.
According to the Commissioner of Police in Ekiti, CP Dare Ogundare, the operatives throughout a routine cease and search performed by the Police within the space intercepted the bus occupied by the suspects.
The police boss defined that upon looking the bus, completely different electrical cables and different gear alleged to have been vandalised by the suspects had been discovered within the bus.
In an analogous improvement, the command operatives whereas on a cease and search alongside Ado/Iworoko highway, intercepted an unregistered Bajaj motorbike with two passengers Temitope Oluwale and Fasiku Johnson on board.
The police mentioned upon looking the sack in the back of the motorbike, quite a few electrical cables suspected to have been carted away from a vandalised 300KVA transformer put in within the agrarian neighborhood had been present in them.
Their arrest was mentioned to have been carried out by males from the RRS at about 8:30pm, whereas making frantic effort at escaping with the loot.
During interrogation, the suspects couldn’t give passable account of the cables, however solely narrated that they took them from someplace in Kogi State and had been heading to Atikankan space of Ado-Ekiti to promote them.
Items alleged to have been present in possession of the suspects as on the time of their arrest, embody transformer winding coil, laminated twine, feeder pillar in addition to laminating sheet, all mentioned to have be the property of BEDC.
Ogundare, defined that the suspects who’re presently detained on the command headquarters in Ado-Ekiti, can be arraigned in court docket as quickly as investigations are accomplished on the matter.
