Residents of Ijora causeway woke up on Tuesday to find the
corpse of an unidentified man by the transformer supplying power to Delta
Liaison Company located in the area. Close to the lifeless body of the deceased
was a jigsaw.
While no one in the community could confirm the identity of
the man, so many of the people spoken to said he must have met his death while
trying to vandalise some electricity cables within the electricity distribution
sub-station.
Confirming the incident, the Head, Corporate Communication
of Eko Electricity Distribution Company Mr. Godwin Idemudia said the man must
have gotten to the sub-station and started carrying our his criminal actwhen
there was no power supply but luck ran out on him when supply was unexpectedly
restored and he was instantly electrocuted.
Mr Idemudia further stated that the matter had already been
reported to the police while the corpse of the suspected cable vandal had been
deposited at Yaba General Hospital Mortuary.
While stating that no one had yet come to identify the man,
Mr.Idemudia said the incident would further debunk the erroneous belief by some
members of the public that only workers in the electricity industry could
engage in vandalism of electricity equipment. The Eko Disco spokesman said the
deceased was not and had never been a staff member of the company. He added
that if not for the sudden restoration of power supply to the sub-station, the
man might have succeeded in his nefarious act while accusing fingers would have
been pointed at thecompany’s staff in the area.
He therefore called on members of the public to be vigilant
and report any suspicious movement around electricity facilities in their
communities to security agents or the nearest Eko Disco office.
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