Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
A security guard and a scavenger have been handed over to the police for allegedly vandalizing the equipment used for the construction of the flyover bridge at Ramat Park in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.
Investigation revealed that the yet-to-be named scavenger’s lid was blown open when local security personnel caught him at the construction site while ferrying the equipment to an undisclosed destination.
A top security officer at the construction site who allegedly provided a cover for the scavenger however pledged to give the vigilantes personnel the sum of N100,000 cash as bribe to conceal their crime and release the arrested scavenger.
But, the vigilantes rejected his overtures and immediately handcuffed him alongside with the scavenger and thereafter handed them over to the police authorities for alleged conspiracy.
When the Edo State Police command image maker, CSP Moses Yamu was contacted for comment, he said that he was yet to be briefed by the Divisional Police Officer at Ikpoba Hill.
“The DPO has not gotten back to me. He has not picked his calls”, he said.