3 Suspected Cable Vandals Detained In Niger

The Niger State Police Command has detained three suspects found in possession of vandalised armoured cables in Minna, the state capital.

The command’s spokesperson, SP Wasiu Abiodun, disclosed this yesterday in Minna.

Abiodun said the suspects were arrested on April 14 at about 8:50 a.m. following credible intelligence.

He explained that a police patrol team attached to Maje Division intercepted an ash-colour Volkswagen vehicle with registration number ABC 852 GN on the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway.

According to him, the vehicle was driven by one Ibrahim Aminu, 23, of Abuja, in company of Isah Jafar, 26, a scrap dealer from Jabi, and Yusuf Aminu, 19, of Gauraka.

“The vehicle was conveying a quantity of vandalised, burnt, cut-to-size armoured cables reasonably suspected to be property of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC),” he said.

Abiodun said that Jafar confessed during interrogation that the cables were vandalised in the Central Area of Abuja in collaboration with an accomplice identified as Dini of Jabi.

“He stated that they were transporting the items to Suleja to find a buyer,” the spokesperson added.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the exhibits recovered from the suspects included two hand saws, a hammer, a chisel and the vandalised cables.

The police spokesman said that the investigation was ongoing and that the suspects would be prosecuted accordingly.