By Jude Michael
Police in Anambra State have arrested a man who is suspected to be a buyer of materials gotten from vandalized EEDC equipment.
The 40 year-old man, simply identified as Maduka, was arrested in Onitsha with equipment gotten from a vandalized facility.
The spokesperson for the Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who revealed this in a press release, said the operatives of the Command were expanding investigation to arrest those who supplied the materials to him.
He said: ‘Police operatives attached to the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, Awkuzu, acting on credible information, on 14th June, 2025, by 4.15pm, arrested one Maduka, ‘M’, aged 40 years, at Fegge, Onitsha, a suspected dealer of vandalized items and equipment.
‘The team also recovered bags of vandalized copper wires, large quantities of high tension wires, copper coil and other transformer equipment.
‘Given the above, the operatives are expanding the investigation following the suspect’s confession of where they sell the items in Ogun and Lagos States.’
