Court Convicts 2 People Arrested By NSCDC for Stealing Armoured Cable at Dangote Cement Factory, Ibese

Court Convicts 2 People Arrested By NSCDC for Stealing Armoured Cable at Dangote Cement Factory, Ibese

 

By Olamide FAKEYE

 

An Ilaro-Yewa Magistrate Court has sentenced two (2) people who were arrested by the operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ogun State Command for stealing armoured cable at Dangote Cement factory, Ibese plant to one year (1yr) imprisonment.

The convicts, Hussain Waziri, male, 36 and Mustapha Aliyu, male, 33 were arrested during a routine beat patrol operations embarked upon by the NSCDC operatives at Dangote Cement Factory Outpost station.

Special armoured cables belonging to Dangote Plc, which is being used in transmitting and distributing power within the factory were recovered from the convicts.

According to a report, the arrested gangs who are serial cable thieves allegedly conspired, jumped over the perimeter fence and accessed the (DCP-I) Cable yard within the Power Plant, with the intent to commit a crime.

At approximately 0336Hours, during the routine patrol at the Power Plant duty post, the NSCDC armed personnel sighted Mustapha Aliyu and Hussein Waziri while committing the heinous crime.

The suspects violently engaged the security personnel with dangerous tools in order to escape arrest.

Mustapha Aliyu was overpowered and eventually arrested, while Hussein Waziri escaped with the stolen cable.

Unfortunately for him, the NSCDC personnel conducted an intelligence based “search and arrest” operation and at about 0436hrs of same night, was re-arrested.

On Tuesday, 21st May, 2024, they were arraigned before a Magistrate Court sitting in Ilaro and presided over by Magistrate M. T. Otayemi Osikoya, who convicted them, after they pleaded guilty on two count charges of conspiracy to steal and stealing of armoured cable belonging to Dangote Cement Company in Ibese.

Reacting to the arrest and the conviction secured at the court, the Ogun State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Commandant David Idowu Ojelabi, mni reiterated the commitment of NSCDC to protection of critical infrastructure and ensuring that crime is stamped out of Ogun State and Nigeria at large.

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