Two brothers, Igwe Kingsley and Igwe Chinedu, have been arrested for vandalising and stealing transformer cables on Onitiri avenue in the Abule Egba area of Lagos.
In a statement posted on X on Tuesday by the police command in Lagos, the two siblings were arrested by residents of the area.
“Two brothers, Igwe Kingsley ‘m’ and Igwe Chinedu ‘m’ were arrested by vigilant residents of Onitiri Avenue, Abule Egba while they were vandalizing transformer cables in the area,” the statement reads.
“They were thereafter handed over to police officers of Oko-Oba Division together with the exhibits. An investigation is ongoing.”
On May 8, the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC) arrested one Friday Nwafor for vandalising and stealing road light indicators on the Third Mainland Bridge.
In a post on his X page, Jubril Gawat, senior special assistant on new media to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos governor, said the 46-year-old vandal was handed over to the police after he was caught with the road studs removed from the newly renovated bridge.
