Police arrest three suspected cable vandals in Kaduna

Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command have arrested three suspected vandals with electricity aluminium cables in Saminaka town in Lere Local Government Area of the state.

Spokesperson of the command, ASP Mansir Hassan, disclosed this to NAN on Sunday, December 31. 

Hassan said that at about 0400hrs on Sunday, the command received information concerning the theft from a low-cost housing area on Kafanchan Road, Saminaka town, that some unknown persons were seen with some electricity cables.

“Our patrol team was drafted to the area, and the three suspects who hail from the Ungwan Bawa Area of the town were promptly arrested,” he said.

The PPRO explained that the suspects were found to be in possession of some aluminium cables and cutlasses at the time of their arrest. 

According to him, they confessed to cutting the cables from electricity poles erected along the Saminaka-Kafanchan road.

Hassan, who disclosed that Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company was promptly informed of the incident, said the investigation was still ongoing.

He added that the suspects would be charged in court upon the completion of an investigation.