Nemesis
caught up with a suspected thief who got electrocuted by barbed wire
while trying to jump over the fence to rob a house in Lokoja, Kogi
state.
The suspected burglar
A suspected burglar was on Friday, electrocuted while attempting to
scale the fence into his target’s compound at the Zone 8 area of
Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.
The tragic incident reportedly took residents by surprise as they
were said to have been alerted to the body stuck to an electrified
fence.
While speaking to a correspondent, an eyewitness said that the
suspected burglar climbed the fence under the cover of darkness at
around 2am, as there was no power supply at the time.
The source said power was restored while the suspect was trying to scale the fence and got electrocuted in the process.
Although the suspect’s name and age could not be ascertained as of
the time of filing this report, residents say he looked like one in his
thirties.
Efforts to speak with the state police command for confirmation, however, proved abortive.
Calls made to the mobile phone of the state Police Public Relations
Officer, William Aya, rang out and he didn’t reply a text message sent
to him by our correspondent.
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