Suspected cable vandal electrocuted in Apapa

Residents of Ijora causeway woke up on Tuesday to find the corpse of an unidentified man by the transformer supplying power to Delta Liaison Company located in the area. Close to the lifeless body of the deceased was a jigsaw.

While no one in the community could confirm the identity of the man, so many of the people spoken to said he must have met his death while trying to vandalise some electricity cables within the electricity distribution sub-station, a statement by Eko Electricity Distribution Company on Wednesday indicated.

The Head, Corporate Communication of Eko Electricity Distribution Company Mr. Godwin Idemudia, in the statement, was quoted as saying that the man must have got to the substation and started carrying our his criminal act when there was no power supply, noting that luck ran out on him when supply was unexpectedly restored, leading to his instant electrocution.

Idemudia further stated that the matter had already been reported to the police while the corpse of the suspected cable vandal had been deposited at Yaba General Hospital Mortuary.

While stating that no one had yet come to identify the man, Idemudia said the incident would further debunk the erroneous belief by some members of the public that only workers in the electricity industry could engage in vandalism of electricity equipment.

The Eko Disco spokesman said the deceased was not and had never been a staff member of the company.

He added that if not for the sudden restoration of power supply to the substation, the man might have succeeded in his nefarious act while accusing fingers would have been pointed at the company’s staff members in the area.

He, therefore, called on members of the public to be vigilant and report any suspicious movement around electricity facilities in their communities to security agents or the nearest Eko Disco office.