Customs Nab Telecommunications Cable Vandals

Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) said the Service has arrested five suspected telecommunications cable vandals allegedly caught while stealing underground telecommunications cables near the Customs Headquarters at Wuse, Zone 3 in Abuja.

Joseph Attah, deputy public relations officer, told newsmen in Abuja that guard duty officers apprehended the suspects at about 1.00 a.m. on Monday and that the suspects were pouring water on their body to cool-off from the heat underground.

“Luck however ran out on them when the vigilant eyes of guard duty officer intercepted them as they emerged from the manhole”.

According to him, the suspects are being detained at the customs headquarters and have made “useful confessional statements’’ during interrogation.

“We have officially contacted the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on the arrest and we will hand over the suspects to them,’’ he said.

According to the NCS deputy PRO, items recovered from the suspects included rope-pulling hoist, cut fibre optic cables, three metal saw, used clothes and a bag of sachet water, popularly called “pure water’’.