Police nab suspected cables thief in Lagos, hunt fleeing accomplice
The Police Command in Lagos State said it detained a suspected vandal, Demola Oladega, believed to have stolen cables in the Ikotun area of the state.
The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to journalists on Saturday in Lagos.
He said that the police received information from a security guard about the incident on Wednesday about 6:30 a.m.
He stated, “The Ikotun Division received a distress call from a security man attached to a company on Governor’s Road that he suspected an unusual movement of two young men on a motorcycle. Based on the information, the Divisional Police Officer immediately mobilised anti-robbery patrol of the division to the scene Oladega was arrested while the other suspect fled.’’
The spokesperson said that the police recovered the vandalised cable wires, one fairly used battery and a pongxing motorcycle with registration number KSF 854 QK.
The police spokesperson said that efforts were ongoing to arrest the fleeing suspect.
(NAN)
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