Two thieves, who specialise in stealing armoured cables and selling as scrap metal for meagre amounts of money have been arrested in Lagos.
They were arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS).
One of the thieves is the security guard of an undisclosed telecom company based in Ogba, Ikeja.
The security guard, Adebayo Afeez, 37, stole the firm’s electricity cable worth N632,000 and sold it to a scrap metal buyer for N30,000.
Afeez 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 4:00am 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 4:00am 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. The suspects have been charged to court,” the police disclosed.