An unidentified individual was electrocuted while attempting to vandalize a transformer in Akute, Ogun State.
According to PUNCH, the neighborhood has been experiencing theft and damage to electrical wires from their power transformer.
Omolola Odutola, the spokesman for the Ogun State Police Command, confirmed this in a statement on Saturday, saying that the deceased climbed into the transformer house and died after being electrocuted while attempting to cut a wire.
She revealed that the incident was reported to the police by the chairman of the Irewole community.
“At about 10:20 am, on Friday, the chairman of the Irewole community, a man identified as Rasheed Ajagbe, reported to the station that for a while, the community had been experiencing theft and damage of electrical wires from their power transformer.
“He reported that around 7 am, he received a call to inspect the transformer and he went there with other community executives.
“When they arrived at the transformer house, they found the lifeless body of an unidentified individual and saw that the man had attempted to vandalise a wire, which then resulted in electrocution,” the statement partly read.
Odutola stated that a team of detectives visited the scene and took photographs.
“Once we got the report, detectives visited the scene to investigate and take photographs. The PHCN office was contacted and the corpse was taken and deposited at General Hospital Ifo mortuary, for autopsy and preservation,” the statement added.
