Kogi Man Electrocuted While Vandalizing Transformer (Photos)

An eyewitness who claimed he knew the victim said he is an indigene of Lokoja, identified the victim’s name as Alfa Olukuluku Kabiru, from Angwan- Masara street.

However, Engr. Michael Eneromi, SME Lokoja Area Office For Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, while speaking on the incident, said that the attention of the Company was drawn to a corpse at a substation along camp road.

He explained that the transformer has been a subject of repeated vandalization over a period, described the recent vandalization that killed the unknown vandal as the fifth in the series which has cost the agency millions of naira .

Engr. Michael expressed gratitude that the recent electrocution of the vandal has exonerated Staff of the AEDC from wrong insinuation made in public spaces that staff of the electricity company are behind vandalization of electricity infrastructure.