The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) Katsina State Command caught Muntari Ali, 20, in the act while destroying an electricity transformer in the village of Barakai in Kafur, a local government area of the state. .
The suspect, who hails from the village of Nasarawa, in the same local government area, was arrested by one of the commando’s routine patrol teams that ran the area.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSC Mohammed Tukur Abdara, revealed this in a statement, which he sent to Newslodge on behalf of the State Commander, Mohammed Sanusi Bello psc +
DSC Abdara, in the statement said: The suspect was arrested when our patrol team spotted him inside the transformer building trying to destroy the transformer located in the Kafur local government Barakai village.
“Before being arrested, he had already drained all the oil from the transformer, worth hundreds of thousands of naira.”
According to Abdara, the suspect who has admitted to committing the crime would be charged in court in due course to answer for his crime.
In the statement, the state NSCDC commander took the opportunity to appeal to “members of the general public to assist law enforcement agencies with accurate and prompt information on suspicious individuals and their activities in order to effectively address the challenges of security facing the state. “
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