Picture of 2 Men Caught with Stolen Nitel Cables Valued at N250 million
The men you see above
were captured
by Police who said they caught them when the vehicle they used in
conveying the
stolen Nitel Cables broke down along Osborne Estate expressway, Ikoyi,
Lagos at
about 3a.m.
They were actually 5 suspects but 3
out of the 5 escaped leaving Femi David, 28, (the ring leader who
claimed he
resides at Ijora and a native of Igbokoda in Ondo State, southwest
Nigeria) and
Michael Etoke, 31, (from Calabar, Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria,
resides at 26, Ijora Badia Street, Ijora, Lagos).
Items recovered from them, according
to the police at Dolphin Estate Division, Ikoyi, Lagos, include about
5,000
pieces of vandalised NITEL cable, five hammers, four jackknives and six
saw
blades.
The suspects confessed to have been
stealing Nitel cable for the past one year. He recounted how they have
been
trained as cable thieves by their master:
“Emeka introduced me into the
business in January 2012, and I served him before I set up my team last
year December,
and we had only succeeded on three occasions before our arrest.
“I always hire a tipper truck driver
who would tie a thick wire to his truck and the head of the cable and
pull the
cable from underground, while about six labourers who are experts in
cutting cables would cut the cable and load them into waiting buses. I
would pay them and we normally operate along Broad Street and Kakawa
Street
area of Lagos Island between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.
“On different occasions, I have sold
vandalised cables for N2 million, N3 million and N5 million to Dongo at
Oyingbo
area of Mainland and Emeka at Ojota, but I spent my share in drinking
beer and
sleeping with prostitutes at Ijora Badia railway line, and we have been
arrested on two occasions.”
The accused who have been charged to
court pleaded not guilty to the charge and magistrate Mrs. C.J. Momodu
admitted
them to bail in the sum of N1 million with two sureties in like sum.
They have however been moved to
Ikoyi Prison pending when they would fulfill their bail conditions.
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