Enugu Police Arrest NITEL Cable Vandals

The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a three-man gang who allegedly specialise in vandalising NITEL cables in parts of Enugu State.

The command’s spokesman, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, said the vandals were caught at Uwani, a suburb of Enugu where they vandalised a NITEL underground cable.

He gave the names of the vandals as Timothy Umeh, Onuigbo Amobi from Awgu and Mohammed Geze from Bauchi State.

In a statement in Enugu yesterday, Amaraizu said that Geze confessed to being the driver of the Mercedes MB 508 bus with registration number XX 102 ENU with which they were conveying the cables.

He said that the vandals were arrested early on February 20 along Maryland in Enugu by through the joint effort of the police and the neighbourhood watch while loading the cables into their vehicle.

The police spokesman also said that the cable thieves tried to bribe the police with N200, 000 but were rebuffed.

According to him, they have confessed to the crime which they said, they started while in Lagos about a year ago.

He said that exhibits recovered from the thieves include rolls of vandalised cables, estimated at millions of naira, a Mercedes MB 508 bus and N197, 000 cash.