The Ogun State Police Command said that its operatives at Owode Egba Division on Friday, arrested a suspected vandal, one Adewole Adekunle, 28, and recovered from him a vandalised Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company transformer, belonging to Showo community, Kobape area, on the Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State.
According to a statement from the spokesperson for the state police command, SP Omolola Odutola, which was made available on Saturday, the suspect was said to have been arrested following a complaint by villagers who hinted the police about the vandals’ activities in the community at about 4:30 am on Friday.
The statement partly read: “Following this information, the DPO of Owode Egba Police Division in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state, CSP Popoola Olasunkanmi, led his men to swiftly respond to the distress call, leading to the arrest of one Adewole Adekunle of No 28, Eleko, Ajah, Lagos
“Other members of the gang fled into the nearby bush while abandoning one Volkswagen bus with registration number EKY 202 YG Lagos State along with its document. Items such as an Itel phone, one digger, one chisel, 11 big spanners, 25 small bolts, 11 big spanners, one big pincher, a polythene bag containing different clothes, and one big vandalized transformer have been recovered from the crime scene.
“Our men currently expediting efforts to track down other members of the notorious vandals and arrest them for possible prosecution.”
The statement added that the Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alamutu, has been briefed and had ordered that the culprit be charged to court as a show of deterrence to other intending vandals, warning scavengers to steer clear of government properties, otherwise face the full wrath of the law.”
