Suspected Wire Vandal Electrocuted In Ogun

 A yet to be identified man was on Monday electrocuted on the Mowe 33KV feeder at Ashipa village on the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway.

The Regional Head, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, Mr Abdulrazaq Jimoh, in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Wednesday, said the IBEDC officials had noticed a missing phase on the Mowe 33KV feeder the previous evening and sent a team to trace the line for a possible fault on the network.

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According to Jimoh, the officials discovered a blue phase wire cut at Ashipa village.

 “On moving closer to the spot, the dead body of the vandal was discovered on the ground at the exact spot where the blue conductor wire was cut", Jimoh said.

“It was suspected that the victim got electrocuted on the second attempt to cut the blue phase HT conductor.

“The case was reported at the Owode Egba Divisional Police Station, who during preliminary investigation found the shoes, pliers, cutlass and other tools that the vandal came with.

“The police later removed the corpse of the vandal to the mortuary for further investigation,” he said.”

He urged residents to be vigilant and protect the IBEDC installations around them noting that the incident would be the third time it would be happening in the area.