1,200 Arrested For Energy Theft In Osun – IBEDC
The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, (IBEDC) has apprehended 1,200 customers of the company within Osun Region for energy theft, in the last six months.
The IBEDC Senior Communication Officer, Osun Region, Kike Owoeye, made this known during a press conference in Osogbo.
He said the company would sustain its clampdown on energy theft, described the act as economic sabotage that should be avoided by patriotic Nigerians.
According to her, many of those arrested were arraigned and fined by courts, while some other cases of energy theft were still ongoing in different courts in the state.
Meanwhile, Osun State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Sunday Agboola, on Friday paraded 5 residents of Ota Efun Area of Osogbo, Osun State, arrested for energy theft.
Agboola, while presenting the suspects before journalists at the Command’s headquarters, explained that the suspects, Eniola Abidoye, Isiaka Ajibola, Muideen Omobolarinwa, Olusegun Owolabi and Taiwo Oyeniran, were picked up on Thursday during NSCDC’s joint operation with officials of IBEDC.
The NSCDC boss urges members of the public to support the Corps regarding its core mandate of protecting national assets, by providing information could curb activities of vandals, added that the suspects owned up to the crime in their statements.
