According to the Ogun State Police Command, its agents detained a suspected vandal, Adewole Adekunle, 28, on Friday at the Owode Egba Division. They also recovered from him a vandalized Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company transformer that belonged to the Showo community in the Kobape area along the Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway in Ogun State.
In a statement released on Saturday, the state police command’s spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola, claimed that the suspect had been detained after villagers complained to the police at around 4:30 a.m. on Friday about the activities of the vandals in the neighborhood.
The statement partly reads, “Following this information, the DPO of Owode Egba Police Division in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state, CSP Popoola Olasunkanmi, led his men to swiftly respond to the distress call, leading to the arrest of one Adewole Adekunle of No 28, Eleko, Ajah, Lagos
“Other members of the gang fled into the nearby bush while abandoning one Volkswagen bus with registration number EKY 202 YG Lagos State along with its document. Items such as an Itel phone, one digger, one chisel, 11 big spanners, 25 small bolts, 11 big spanners, one big pincher, a polythene bag containing different clothes, and one big vandalized transformer have been recovered from the crime scene.
“Our men currently expediting efforts to track down other members of the notorious vandals and arrest them for possible prosecution.”
The statement added, “The Commissioner of Police CP Abiodun Alamutu has been briefed and has ordered that the culprit be charged to court as a show of deterrence to other intending vandals warning scavengers to steer clear of government properties otherwise face the full wrath of the law.”
