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Police Bust Transformer Theft Ring: AEDC Official, Five Others Apprehended In FCT Operation

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  • FCT Police arrests AEDC official and five others for transformer vandalism and theft.

  • Operation led by SP Josephine Adeh results in apprehension of suspects attempting to escape with stolen transformer.

  • Recovered items include vandalized transformer, vehicles, and equipment linked to the AEDC staff member.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Friday disclosed , the arrest of an official from the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company alongside five accomplices for the vandalism and theft of a transformer.

SP Josephine Adeh, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, made this announcement in a statement released on the command’s official social media channels.

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The statement read, “The operatives of the FCT Police Command, on April 11, 2024, at about 10:45p., acting on credible intelligence, trailed and arrested six suspects, namely Kabiru Muhammed, Aliyu Usman, Abdulmalik Alhasassan, Shafi’u Suleiman, Suleiman Ibrahim, and Raymond Mailabari, who is an AEDC staff member, all males of Tipper Garage, Mpape, Abuja, for vandalising and stealing a transformer.

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“The suspects were trying to escape with an already vandalised transformer they had loaded on a crane truck in Maitama when police operatives swooped in and apprehended them.

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“The vandalised transformer, a crane truck, a blue Mercedes Benz with number plate. PKN 497 XA, a white J5 bus with number plate RBC 228 XC, and an ash Peugeot 406 car with the number plate. GSN 13 AA belonging to the AEDC staff member were all recovered.”

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