Police arrest four Air Force men for allegedly vandalizing N25million worth of water pipes

The police in Lagos yesterday declared the arrest of four Air Force men and seven others for allegedly vandalizing Lagos State Water Corporation press channels esteemed at about N25 million. 

Air Crew Men (ACM) Akingbola Wole, Ugbong Abel, Alalifu George and Kumish Revelation connected to 055 NAF Camp, Victoria Island, were shrunk by the water board's worker, Olayiwole Oyedele, to give security amid the vandalism on Saturday morning. 

Additionally arrested were the purchaser, Okechukwu Alozie, Wale Lawal, Babatunde Samson, Ismaila Adejare, Iliasu Ibrahim and Ikechukwu Ezemba. It was assembled that Oyedele sold the irons to Alozie for N650,000 and had officially gathered N200,000 forthright. 

The Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, said the speculates that wore military cover were captured at Doyin transport stop, Orile zone, where they professedly vandalized people in general utility, including that one Clerk crane and Iveco G3 truck with were recuperated from them. 

As indicated by Oyedele, he consented to pay the fighters N35,000 for their administration, including that Wole gathered N20,000 as progress payment.He stated: "I have been a government employee with Lagos State government for more than 22 years. 

I work with the water enterprise. The irons are scraps that we deserted subsequent to putting in new ones. I shouldn't convey
them but rather the purchaser (Alozie) reached me that the one that was unloaded to him has completed and he needed more. 

Thus, when we went to convey those ones where they were relinquished, gangsters in the range won't. They didn't request cash yet they said we couldn't convey them. 

That was the means by which I reached one of my relatives and disclosed to him I required a few officers that would help drive the punks off and furthermore escort the channels to China Town, where the purchaser needed them conveyed. 

Yet, the fighters asserted they never realized that Oyedele was taking the irons, including that they found it at the scene when they saw that the pipes were government property.