The Kano State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has detained two individuals for theft and damage.
The defendants were also charged with stealing religious property and causing damage to public electrical facilities.
According to a statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SC Ibrahim Idris Abdullahi, the NSCDC’s operatives apprehended Murtala Aliyu Muhd, a 35-year-old resident of Dawakin Dakata in the Nassarawa local government area of the state, for allegedly stealing a solar energy battery from Dakata Juma’at mosque.
According to the statement, the suspect entered the mosque at night through a window and stole the battery that runs the mosque’s electrical equipment.
Muh’d was caught the next day at a security checkpoint at the Yankaba Eastern Bypass roundabout while attempting to transfer the battery to the market.
“He could not provide any satisfactory account of where he got the battery and where he was taking it to,” according to the declaration.
In a second case, Musbahu Sani, a 19-year-old inhabitant of Darmanawa Quarters in Tarauni local government region, was detained with huge armored cables suspected of having been taken from a public transformer.
“Upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to removing the cables from an electricity installation (transformer) at Darmanawa Quarters and was taking it to the market to sell when he was captured by Civil Defence along Court Road, Gyadi-Gyadi,” according to the release.
Abdullahi stated that both suspects had been turned up to the NSCDC’s legal unit for prosecution.
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