Oyo police arrest four over alleged theft of N8m Telecom equipment

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested 4 suspected telecommunications infrastructure vandals who allegedly confessed to stealing star powerfulness instrumentality from a telecom installation successful Kwara State.

A connection by the Command said the suspects were apprehended by operatives of the Command Monitoring Unit during a regular stop-and-search cognition conducted connected June 20, 2026, astatine the Irepo country on the Oyo–Ogbomoso Expressway.

The Command disclosed that the suspects were intercepted portion transporting suspected stolen telecommunications powerfulness instrumentality successful an ash-coloured Toyota Sienna conveyance with registration fig EPE 992 KH.

Those arrested were identified arsenic Jimoh Mufutau, 35, from Mowe-Ibafo country of Ogun State; Saheed Akanbi, 34, from Onipanu country of Lagos State; Lateef Ibrahim, 37, from Igando country of Lagos State; and Lukman Jimoh, 38, from Isheri/Berger country of Lagos State.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects were conveying 4 hybrid star batteries valued astatine astir ₦8 million.

According to the police, the suspects confessed during interrogation that the instrumentality was stolen from a telecommunications installation successful Offa, Kwara State, earlier they attempted to transport it to an undisclosed destination.

“The recovered items and the conveyance utilized successful conveying t...