The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested an official of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company along with five others for vandalizing and stealing a transformer.
The arrests were announced in a statement by SP Josephine Adeh, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, on the command’s X handle on Friday.
The statement read, “The operatives of the FCT Police Command, on April 11, 2024, at about 10:45p., acting on credible intelligence, trailed and arrested six suspects, namely Kabiru Muhammed, Aliyu Usman, Abdulmalik Alhasassan, Shafi’u Suleiman, Suleiman Ibrahim, and Raymond Mailabari, who is an AEDC staff member, all males of Tipper Garage, Mpape, Abuja, for vandalising and stealing a transformer.
“The suspects were trying to escape with an already vandalised transformer they had loaded on a crane truck in Maitama when police operatives swooped in and apprehended them.
“The vandalised transformer, a crane truck, a blue Mercedes Benz with number plate. PKN 497 XA, a white J5 bus with number plate RBC 228 XC, and an ash Peugeot 406 car with the number plate. GSN 13 AA belonging to the AEDC staff member were all recovered.”