The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, has paraded seven suspected electric cable vandals.
The state Commandant Umar J.G Mohammed, who paraded the seven suspects, identified them as Awal Issa (18) Ibrahim Musa (19) Ibrahim Mohammed (15) Yau Yahaya (19) Aliu Abubakar (24) Sulaiman Abubakar (18) and Musa Adisa (21).
Also, Yau Yahaya and Musa Ibrahim, a scrap dealer at Tanke Oke Odo area, Ilorin, were alleged to have stolen electric cables at Jalala Quarters of University of Ilorin.
According to a statement by the spokesman of the civil defense corps, Ayeni Olasunkanmi, in Ilorin on Wednesday, the suspects were caught with vandalized electric cables.
The suspect led the patrol to the scrap dealers’ spot at Oke Odo area, at Tanke area where the other five suspects were apprehended.
Umar , in the statement, said the rate at which government facilities were being vandalized was alarming and disturbing.
“In almost all our cities and towns, public facilities which are provided by government were being vandalized by unscrupulous people as soon they have been installed,” he said.
