The Ogun State Police Command says its operatives at Owode Egba Division arrested a suspected vandal, one Adewole Adekunle and recovered from him a vandalised Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company transformer, belonging to Showo community, Kobape area, on the Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State.
Spokesperson of the Police Command, SP Omolola Odutola, said the arrest followed a complaint by villagers who hinted to the police about the vandals’ activities.
The statement partly reads, “Other members of the gang fled into the nearby bush while abandoning one Volkswagen bus with registration number EKY 202 YG Lagos State along with its document. Items such as an Itel phone, one digger, one chisel, 11 big spanners, 25 small bolts, 11 big spanners, one big pincher, a polythene bag containing different clothes, and one big vandalized transformer have been recovered from the crime scene.”
The Commissioner of Police CP Abiodun Alamutu has been briefed and has ordered that the culprit be charged to court as a show of deterrence to other intending vandals warning scavengers to steer clear of government properties otherwise face the full wrath of the law.”
She said officers were currently expediting efforts to track down other members of the notorious vandals and arrest them for possible prosecution.
