Officers of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, a unit of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two cable vandals in different parts of Lagos.
 
According to the command, the suspects, Akpan Fortune aged 28 and Stanley Umebuane aged 24 were arrested in Ikeja and Ikoyi last Sunday.
 
It said Fortune was arrested in the morning on Acme Crescent, Agidingbi, Ikeja after accessing and vandalising telecommunication and generator cables in a substation in the area.
 
Umebuane on his part was caught in the act by an RRS team on routine patrol on Sunday night at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, digging up electricity cables with a shovel.
 
Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed this, said recovered from them were a shovel and different types of vandalized cables.
 
Commander, Rapid Response Squad, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi asked that the suspects be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti for further investigation and prosecution.