Suspected Cable Vandal Electrocuted At Obalende Transformer Platform

BY PAUL IYOGHOJIE

A yet-to-be identified suspected cable vandals has been electrocuted at a power transformer platform located beside the late Chief Sonny Odogwu’s SIO Building beside the Police Microfinance Bank at Obalende, Lagos.

Though details of the incident were still sketching as of the time of going to the press, but concerned residents in the area said they woke up in the morning to see the gory sight of the victim, with a cable he already vandalized inside the transformer platform, frozen there.

They said they don’t know him or where he came from.

The residents said he may have jumped over the fence at midnight after the main entrance gate had been locked by 12 am to gain access to vandalized the transformer cable before he was electrocuted.

A witness, who identified himself simply as Suraju told our correspondent that the victim thought that with the demolition of Obalende Police Barracks, all the electricity platforms have equally been neutralised unknown to him that the transformer he vandalized was still active and serving some residents in the area.

He stated, “the victim and others who pretend to be scavengers picking empty water bottles and other items in the night are vandals as they are using the method to deceived the public. But that their major preoccupation is vandalization of communication and electricity cables, and bridge rails.

“The victim was with a bag containing empty water bottles, beverage cans, torch light, instruments of vandalization before he was electrocuted, which means he was deceiving the public to be a scavenger, but his job is vandalization of Government facilities and now he has met his Waterloo.

“I am now appealing to the Lagos State Government to ban people with bags claiming to be scavengers and truck pushers from operating in the night to stop the vandalization of Government facilities,” Suraju appealed.

When Our Correspondent visited the scene, it was like a mecca of sort as people in their large numbers throng the scene to have a glimpse of the victim, but none of them could identify him.