The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) says a barbing salon operator in Nsukka has been electrocuted while trying to vandalise electrical installation in the area.
The deceased, Tochukwu Onah (alias Toshiba) as identified by the company is a barber and an indigene of the Ede-Oballa Community (the same community where the transformer is located).
Mr Emeka Ezeh, the Head of Corporate Communications, EEDC, while addressing the newsmen in Enugu on Sunday, described the incident as very unfortunate, one which had cut the young man’s life short at its prime.
Ezeh said that the body of the suspect was found within the space of a distribution transformer belonging to the EEDC in the early hours of Saturday, at Ede-Oballa community, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, saying that it was suspected that the unfortunate vandal was electrocuted while attempting to vandalise the distribution transformer which already had some of its cables severed.
Ezeh recalled the numerous cases of vandalism recorded by the company in 2022, which negatively impacted not just the quality of service to its customers, but also its revenue.
He, therefore, called on the public to also look inwards, as some of the perpetrators of these attacks might be residing within the neighbourhood or community.