Seidu Ali
The Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command apprehended a 24-year-old individual from Niger named Seidu Ali, on Wednesday, for reportedly stealing electrical cables.
The arrest took place on the Third Mainland Bridge, as revealed by the Lagos State Police Command on its official communication platform on Thursday.
The tweet read, “Yesterday, around 1pm, operatives of the Rapid Response Squad on routine patrol of Third Mainland Bridge arrested a suspected cable thief and retrieved from him four bounded strands of cables.
“The arrest of the suspect, a Nigerien, Seidu Ali (24), was the second in three weeks. He had earlier been arrested and reprimanded for attempting to steal cable on Third Mainland Bridge. Four bounded strands of cables were retrieved from him.”
The Commander of RRS, Olayinka Egbeyemi, was reported to have instructed that the suspect should be promptly taken to court for legal proceedings.