The Delta State Police Command has arrested three persons for vandalising armoured cables and other electrical installations at Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC).
The acting spokesperson of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, who confirmed this in a statement on Thursday, April 1, said the suspected vandals identified as Saturday Idoge, Sunday Ishenive and Philip Ngbodi, are all staff of a private security company attached to WRPC.
Realtime.ng gathered that the security outfit had been worried about the activities of vandals in the company and had set up a discreet security dragnet which eventually caught up with the staff.
A staff of the company who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter said the company is upbeat and has employed more sophisticated technologies to ensure that the facilities are protected from any form of vandalism or theft.
“On the 28/3/2021 at about 2000hrs, acting on actionable intelligence, operatives of State Intelligent Bureau (SIB) led by one Inspr. Obot Bassey in collaboration with mobile personnel attached to Warri Refinery arrested three (3) suspects namely: one Saturday Idoge ‘m’, Sunday Ishenive ‘m’ and Philip Ngbodi ‘m’ all staff of [a] private security company attached to PPMC/Refinery Warri,” a the statement by the PPRO says.
“They were caught vandalizing Armored Cables and other electrical installations in the PPMC Refinery Warri at Tank 82 in the refinery complex. The following exhibits were recovered from them: One ladder, industrial iron cutters, vandalized Armored Cables and other items. Meanwhile, effort is ongoing to apprehend the receivers.”