Police arrest suspected cable vandals in Lagos

Officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested two cable vandalism suspects in different parts of Lagos State.
 
The suspects — Akpan Fortune, aged 28, and Stanley Umebuane, aged 24 — were arrested in Ikeja and Ikoyi areas on Sunday, November 6, 2022.
 
The police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed this in a statement on Monday, November 7, said that 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.
 
The PPRO said that the RRS Commander, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, had transferred the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, for further investigation and prosecution.