Officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested two suspected cable vandals in different parts of Lagos, the Lagos State Police Command reports on Monday.
The Lagos State Police Command in a statement released and signed by the Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, on Monday 7th November 2022, revealed the names of the two suspected Cable vandals as Akpan Fortune aged 28 and Stanley Umebuane aged 24.
According to SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the two suspected cable vandals were arrested in Ikeja and Ikoyi on Sunday, November 6, 2022.
Fortune was arrested in the morning on Acme Crescent, Agidingbi, Ikeja after accessing and vandalizing telecommunication and generator cables in a substation in the area. Umebuane on his part was caught in the act by an RRS team on routine patrol on Sunday night at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, digging up electricity cables with a shovel.
Recovered from them were a shovel and different types of vandalized cables. Commander, Rapid Response Squads (RRS), CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi has since transferred the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti for further investigation and prosecution.