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Services Front Page Back Page Advert Rates Subscription News Home National International Business News Abuja Reports Sports Politics Sun Girl Editorial Editorial Issues Letters Opinion Columnists Community Standard Guestbook View Guestbook Sun Chatroom   Features Apettit Arts BlockBuster CEO Magazine Celebrity Fashion City Sun Crime Watch Covert Choice CyberSun Enterprise Everyday Heroes Exquisite Property Fashion & Celebrity Fashion & Beauty Favourite File Health Magazine How I write Life Style Living Mafia Series Man in the street Man in the pulpit Managing a Law Firm Me & My God Media People Money Motoring Power Game Romance Romantic Faction Senior Citizen Showtime Smoking Guns Sun Splash Sunlight of Islam Travels Window of the world Window on widows Woman of the Sun Women in Business Women & Me Videoscope Weekend Sun Saturday Sun Sunday Sun Weekend Sports Weekend Cartoons Company Profile About Us Management Contact Us   Driver held over cable theft By HENRY CHUKWURAH, Port Harcourt Friday July 30, 2004 Sunny Eze National Index Love of money may have landed a commercial bus driver in avoidable trouble in Port Harcourt as he has been arrested for alleged involvement in the theft of NEPA cables. The 26-year-old driver, Sunny Eze and an accomplice, Paul Ayogu, were arrested by the police for allegedly vandalizing and stealing the cables at Elele Alimini in Rivers State. The cables were being used for the construction of some towers in an on-going project to link some communities to the national grid. Police sources put the value of the 1.32KV cables at about N10.5million Speaking when the two suspects were paraded recently, Eze said his bus was hired for N15,000 (fifteen thousand naira) by Ayogu, a secondary school leaver, to convey the cables from Elele to a cable market on Okija Street, Port Harcourt. He said until the now-regrettable deal, he had never met Ayogu, a statement that the latter confirmed. “I am a commercial driver. I ply Elele- Owerri line and that day, this man (Ayogu) came to me and hired me to carry the cables to Port Harcourt. I did not know that they were stolen” Asked by Daily Sun whether he did not consider N15,000 too much for a trip of less than two hours, the suspect said he merely exploited the fuel scarcity at the time, to make good money. On his own, Ayogu confessed that a friend, an indigene of Elele, introduced him to the illegal act. “It was a friend of mine, Peter Mbanaso who is from Elele, that connected me to cutting of the cables. We cut it in the morning and I had to hire this man (Eze) to help us carry it to Port Harcourt. Ayogu said he was paid N8,000 (eight thousand naira) for the job and that he was told to convey the cables to “one Ethel from Imo State” at No. 9 Okija Street who occupies Shed 5 at the market. The suspect said that it was his friend, Mbanaso, now on the run, that paid him and Eze for the job, an allegation which was vehemently denied by Eze who said he had never met Mbanaso. “I don’t know Mbanaso. It was him (Ayogu) who chartered me and paid me. I never met Mbanaso”. Despite the disagreement between the two suspects, Ayogu confirmed Eze’s claim that they had never met before the day of the crime. Speaking on their arrests, Police image maker, Mrs Ireju Barasua (ASP) urged for public vigilance and co-operation in the hunt for criminals in the state. Barasua hinted that the suspects would be prosecuted on conclusion of investigation.         HOME | ABOUT THE SUN | SPORTS | POLITICS | NEWS | COLUMNISTS | CONTACT US I ADVERT RATE © 2004 THE SUN PUBLISHING LTD. This service is provided on The Sun Newspapers' standard terms and conditions in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material and other inquiries, Contact Us.

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