{"id":6183,"date":"2026-11-09T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=6183"},"modified":"2026-11-09T22:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T22:10:54","slug":"police-arrest-8-suspected-criminals-over-vandalism-theft-of-power-infrastructure-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=6183","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 8 suspected criminals over vandalism, theft of power infrastructure in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*<strong><em>SP Josephine Adeh, Police Public Relations Officer of the FCT Command of the Nigeria Police discloses the preliminary investigations showed the arrested infrastructure vandals are members of &#8216;a criminal gang&#8217;, specialising in vandalism and theft of public, private infrastructure across districts in Abuja<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect<\/p>\n<p>Following their routine anti-crime patrol within the country&#8217;s capital city centre, operatives of the Nigeria Police, FCT Command, attached to Central Police Station have arrested eight suspects for allegedly vandalising streetlights, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>SP Josephine Adeh, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the FCT Police Command, who disclosed this in a statement, confirmed that the operatives effected the arrest during their regular&nbsp; anti-crime patrol within the FCT.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"IrjW6HC0eb\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=6187\">Nigerian consumers urge marketers to reduce fuel prices over impact on households, businesses<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cNigerian consumers urge marketers to reduce fuel prices over impact on households, businesses\u201d \u2014 Consumer Experience Is A Top Priority\" src=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=6187&amp;embed=true#?secret=Ti4svi6j1C#?secret=IrjW6HC0eb\" data-secret=\"IrjW6HC0eb\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The statement listed the names of the eight arrested suspects as Sani Musa, Ashiru Adamu, Markus Joseph, Suleman Ibrahim, Jamilu Umar, Usman Aliyu, Uzairu Sani, and Shafiu Bala.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Official: Suspects specialise in vandalism, theft of public, private infrastructure<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the criminal activities of the arrested suspects, SP Adeh alleged that the preliminary investigations showed that the purported infrastructure vandals are members of a criminal gang that specialises in the vandalism and theft of public and private infrastructure across the Central Business District (CBD), Maitama, Wuse, Garki, and Asokoro districts of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>Following their arrest, the FCT Police Command PRO said the operatives recovered five long streetlight poles, cut at their base and suspected to have been stolen from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further noted that exhibits and suspects would remain in Police custody, and they would be charged to court at the conclusion of ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Police Command, therefore, urged residents of Abuja City to remain vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>The Police advised the people to promptly report suspicious persons and activities to the nearest Police station, or through the FCT Command\u2019s emergency lines: 08032003913, 08061581938.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*SP Josephine Adeh, Police Public Relations Officer of the FCT Command of the Nigeria Police discloses the preliminary investigations showed the arrested infrastructure vandals are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"default","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","category-infoeducation","category-regulators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}