Suspected Cable Vandals, Phone Snatchers Nabbed In Taraba

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Taraba State Command, Saturday, announced the arrest of two suspects who allegedly specialized in vandalizing and carting away cables.

The state commandant of the corps, Mr Edwin Ugwuja, told THE WHISTLER in an exclusive interview that the suspects ‘vandalized and carted away 32mm cables belonging to the Taraba Water Agency and Sewage Corporation (TAWASCO), a development which has adversely affected the constant supply of potable water to the residents of Jalingo metropolis’.

Godwin Peter, the state public relations officer of the corps, further revealed that the corps also arrested three other suspects ‘who habitually indulged in phone theft’.

Mr Ugwuja, who paraded the suspects in Jalingo, Friday, said, “They were roundly arrested by the gallant men of the Quick Respond Team while they were vandalizing the expensive and essential cables of the corporation.”

According to him, the vandals took to their heels on sighting the NSCDC operatives ‘but the suspects were given a hot chase until they were finally apprehended’.

He said the other three suspects, whose business was dispossession of unsuspecting members of the public of their hard earned phones, were picked up at different locations within Jalingo metropolis through coordinated arrests.

He explained that the suspects confessed to the crimes, and would be charged to court soon.

He advised the general public to guard their property ‘jealousy and to furnish his men with useful information on the nefarious activities of men of the underworld’.

He also assured the people of the state that the corps was not going to rest until ‘bad eggs are weeded out of the state’.