An unidentified man was electrocuted while trying to steal transformer cables in the early hours of Friday inside the premises of Niger State Printing Press in Minna.
The Head of the Legal Unit of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Aminu Ubandoma, confirmed this to newsmen.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the corpse of the man was found by some staff of the printing press hanging on the transformer on Friday morning.
Ubandoma said the company had been receiving several reports of transformers vandalism.
He disclosed that the company was working with security agencies, especially with the police, to ensure the rate of transformer vandalism was reduced to the barest minimum.
Also confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Niger State Police Command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, said at about 11am on Friday, an incident of suspected electrocution/vandalism was reported.
Abiodun said the incident occurred around the old secretariat area at the printing press premises, where the body of a male adult, yet to be identified, was found at a transformer with a cable cutter and some vandalised cables.
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He was suspected to have been electrocuted.
Abiodun said the body was taken to the General Hospital, Minna by Morris Patrol Team and was confirmed dead in the hospital.
He noted that effort was ongoing to locate the relative of the deceased as the incident was under investigation in collaboration with the AEDC.
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