Wednesday, December 11, 2024 -Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested the security guard of a telco company based in Ogba, Ikeja for stealing and selling the firm’s electricity cable worth N632,000 to a scrap metal buyer for N30,000.
The security guard, Adebayo Afeez, 37, was arrested in the company’s
(name withheld) premises after the buyer of the cable, Musbau Amodu, 32, led
the operatives to the seller.
The operatives patrolling Ogba around 4:00 a.m. on Sunday arrested Amodu
with the wrapped cable for failing to satisfactorily explain how he got a 4mm
armored cable measuring 100 meters and another, a 10mm cable of about 20
metres.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Adebayo stole the cables from
the company’s store before selling them to Amodu around 4:00 a.m. for N30,000
on Sunday. The cable according to the company’s source is worth N632,000.
Investigations further revealed that they have been transacting since
Adebayo was deployed to the Ogba-based company as a guard from his employing
security firm.
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