Community members have been urged to protect electrical installations in their domain.
This plea is coming from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria following the arrest of two men for allegedly vandalising a transformer.
Pekun Adeyanju, the Assistant General Manager, Public Affairs of the PHCN in Lagos State in a statement on Tuesday stated that the suspects were arrested on Monday at the Oshodi area of the state as “they were removing the four single core cables from the feeder pillar at LSDPC 500KVA Sehinde Calypso Transformer.”
Adeyanju stated that epileptic power supply in some areas is caused by vandals who have become more desperate in the criminal acts.
“We implore the Community Development Association and other security agencies to assist in fighting the menace of vandalism of PHCN facilities in our society for appreciable progress in electricity industry.”
Explaining how the vandals were arrested by the police, Adeyanju said: “According to information available to Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, the vandals were arrested by a team of policemen guarding a hotel near the transformer and were handed over to Akinpelu Police Station Oshodi for further interrogation and prosecution.
“The Management of PHCN Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company expressed her sincere appreciation to Nigerian Police in assisting PHCN to arrest and prosecute the thieves and we urged the police authority to ensure speedy prosecution of the vandals to serve as deterrent to others.”
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