Man, 20, Caught Red-handed Vandalising Transformer in Katsina Community

• 20 years old caught red-handed vandalising community transformer in Katsina

EKO HOT BLOG reports that one Muntari Ali, a 20-year-old man, was apprehended in the act of vandalizing an electricity transformer in Barakai village in Kafur Local Government Area of the state by the Katsina State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

Muntari Ali

One of the command’s routine patrol teams guarding the area nabbed the suspect, who is from Nasarawa village in the same local government area.

The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSC Mohammed Tukur Abdara, disclosed this in a statement, sent to newsmen on behalf of the State Commandant, Mohammed Sanusi Bello psc+

DSC Abdara, in the statement said: The suspect was arrested when our patrol team sighted him inside the transformer building trying to vandalize the transformer located at Barakai village of Kafur Local government.

“Before he was arrested, he had already drained all the oil in the transformer, worth hundreds of thousands naira,”

According to Abdara, the suspect who has admitted to committing the crime, would be charged to court in due course to answer for his crime.

In the statement, the state’s NSCDC Commandant used the opportunity to appeal to “members of the general public to assist security agencies with accurate and prompt information on suspicious individuals and their activities so as to effectively tackle the security challenges facing the state.”

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