A young man from Udianga Enem village in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, has lost his life while he was trying to steal electric cables belonging to the community.
Straightnews gathered that the suspected cable thief, one Ulim Amos Udo and the electric pole fell to the ground, killing him in the process.
Community sources told our correspondent on Sunday that the deceased, suspected to be a notorious cultist, has been in the habit of stealing and robbing people of their valuables including livestock.
A member of the youths’ vigilante group, Akpan Effiong Etuk, told journalists that the “the incident occurred at about 2:00 a.m, when the entire community people were already asleep.”
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According to Etuk, “When he climbed the pole, he had no premonition that due to heavy rain in recent times, the ground could be very soft for the pole to be firm enough to carry his weight.
‘‘At the top of the pole, in the process of trying to be very fast in cutting off the cables, he fell down with the collapsing concrete pole, which crashed and heavily injured him.
“His accomplices rushed to his compound, popularly called Ilung Udoiyong, and alerted the parents, who rushed him to a local traditional bone-setter in Ikot Edet village, Etim Ekpo LGA,.
Before the bone setter could massage him, he had died, and was hurriedly buried on Saturday.”
The Akwa Ibom Police Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko MacDon, when contacted said that the Command has not received such information, adding he would call the DPO in Etim Ekpo local government to confirm the development.
