Suspected Cable Thief Electrocuted To Death

An suspected electric cable vandal was electrocuted in Delta State’s Ika North East Local Government Area.

The incident took place at Ogbe Quarters in Ute-Okpu Kingdom on Saturday, July 8, 2023, at around three in the morning.

A dead body was found hanging from a twin electric pole at a 33 KVA transformer by the well-known Afor market, Ute- Okpu, when residents of the rural town woke up.

A young boy who saw the body while en route to the next village apparently alerted the locals.

According to a local who only provided his first name as John, without the child, no one would have noticed anything was wrong.

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“We were alerted by a young boy who was going to the next village. We never knew that somebody was hanging up there. We didn’t go anywhere today because of the rainfall. Even though we came out to our frontages, we did not notice the lifeless body of the young man hanging there,” he told the Nigerian Tribune

“The lifeless body is holding an electric cable in his hands, which means that he was cutting the cable. For some time now, we didn’t have power supply, but BEDC brought light around 3:00 a.m today. Well, only God knows what happened. We have alerted the vigilante in this area and we are waiting for them to bring down the corpse,” he concluded.

Another local, who wished to remain anonymous, lamented the tragic event but attributed it to a hasty quest for wealth.

“As you can see, he is holding the cable in his hand up there which means that he was there to vandalize the cable. Our youths don’t want to work but want to make money. Nobody can identify the corpse because he is up there. Until they bring him down, we won’t know whether he is from here or from any of the neighbouring villages,” he noted.