The Lagos State Police Command has paraded a suspected NITEL cable thief.
Arresting of cable vandals had become a major challenge to the police as the cable thieves usually operated at odd hours between midnight and 5 a.m.
Police Public Relations Officer,Frank Mba, who paraded the suspect before journalists, said the suspect name withheld was arrested by a team of policemen from the Apapa Division.
Mba said six NITEL cables cut from the underground hole were recovered from the suspect.
He said the suspect claimed that he belonged to a five-man gang of cable vandals operating in different parts of the metropolis.
The police spokesman said the suspect also claimed the operation was his first as his friends, now at large, introduced him to the crime.
He said the police were on the trail of the other members of the gang.
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