The police in Yobe State has apprehended two suspects, Yohanna Sulei, 25, and 17-year-old Emmanuel Joseph, for allegedly vandalising a power line and stealing armoured cables supplying electricity to a water treatment plant in the Adamawa State capital, Yola.
This was disclosed by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, who said the young men were nabbed over the theft of the armoured cables connecting the water treatment plant in Boronji, a residential community near the Government House, Yola.
In the Police statement released Monday afternoon, Nguroje said the operatives while on a confidence-building building patrol along the Boronji Water Treatment Plant, responded to a distress call from the manager of the plant.
“The suspects conspired and vandalized armoured cables connecting light to the treatment plant, resulting in shutting down of water supply.
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“Investigation so far revealed that the suspects are collaborating with some yet-to-be-arrested receivers who benefit even more from the services of the water treatment plant”, Nguroje stated.
He said the Commissioner of Police, CP Afolabi Babatola, warned those receiving such items to desist, henceforth or prepare for the end result.
He stressed that the receivers of the cables in this particular case would be traced and arrested and be made to face the law.
In another development, four persons were killed on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Monday when a luxury bus rammed into a truck.
Three other persons sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident.
Mrs Florence Okpe, Public Education Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps in Ogun, confirmed the incident in Abeokuta.
She said the truck did not stop after the bus rammed into it while negotiating a bend around the Kara axis on the expressway.
Okpe also said that 21 persons, 13 men and eight women, were involved in the accident.
”The corpses were deposited at a morgue in Sagamu in Ogun, while the injured were taken to a nearby hospital, ” she said.