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Wednesday, June 30, 2004.
Thieves steal NTA Awka equipment
By Okey Maduforo
Correspondent,
Awka
Property worth over
N300,000 were on Tuesday stolen by
unknown persons at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Awka,
causing the station to go off
transmission.
The police in
Anambra State have begun a manhunt for those involved in the incident and have
also concluded arrangements to carry its investigation to Lagos State.
Taking journalists
round the station, the General Manager of the station, Mary Okonkwo, said at
about 12 noon, a truck pull into the premises with three men who showed a
letter purporting to have been instructed from Lagos to come and carry a complete
mast transmission.
“We have been
talking about increasing the height of the mast, so when we saw them, I thought
that they have answered our call, only to discover that what they have is
rectangular while ours is triangular, we tried to contact Lagos with the number
they gave us but it was not going through, so we asked them to go,” she
said.
Okonkwo added that
one of their security men spotted one of the three men under the mango tree
outside the compound while the rest could not be identified.
Affected in the
theft are the automatic voltage regular (AVR) and the starter of the Perkins
V837543 power generating set, which supplies electricity to the station.
