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Contractors, expatriate involved in street lights vandalism- AMMC 

By Sarah NEGEDU

Some high level contractors and expatriate have been fingered in the vandalism of street lights and other road infrastructure in the Federal Capital Territory.

The Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC, told journalists that an expatriate contractor from a major firm was recently arrested for vandalism of key components of street light and handed over to the police for further investigation and prosecution.

Coordinator of AMMC, Chief Felix Obuah, who disclosed this after inspecting vandalized cables and other accessories in some parts of the nation’s capital, said the expatriate involved was doing business in Abuja and was vandalizing the cable and street poles to enable him get a new contract from the administration.

Obuah who declined to reveal the name and nationality of the suspect pending conclusion of investigation, said the company is well known, and the suspect will face full wrath of the law.

He admitted that until they were able to discover the involvement of high-level contractors in the sabotage, AMMC erroneously believed that the theft of the cable components in the metropolitan was only carried out by miscreants and scavengers.

The coordinator explained that Abuja streetlights is divided into 21 lots, which he said the 18 lots so far inspected have been vandalised but most of them are undergoing intervention work.

Obuah explained that, “The minister of FCT has given us matching order to make sure that Abuja is lightened up, and as a matter of fact, I embark on the spot assesment with my team to make sure things work well.

“Abuja is divided into 21 lots, today will inspected almost 18 lots. We have discovered that most of those areas have been vandalised, which some are undergoing intervention work by my team.

“We are not impressed with the level of vandalisation that had happened in some of those lots. But I am impressed with my team for living up to expectations especially with the ongoing maintenance work on Yar’adua way and Jabi areas, the light has been restored but some are yet to be restored.

“We will make sure that within a short possible time, the issues is restored. Most a times we thought is scavengers or miscreants that are involved in vandalising the streetlights, not until today that we are able to discover that high level contractors are involved in sabotaging the good efforts of the minister and AMMC.

“We have arrested a very prominent contractor, an expatriate who is involved in vandalising these streetlights to enable them get this contract.One of the expatriates has been arrested and is in detention, there are full evidence to that effect.

“Our report will be submitted to the minister, we must make sure that those vandals and the people buying the items would not go free.

“We can’t be buying and installing while miscreants and expatriates are vandalising it, sabotaging the good efforts of government is wrong.”

The vandalism of the cable along Kubwa Express Way has left many parts of Gwagwalada, Dawaki and Kasauna in pitch darkness.

Obuah however assured that the AMMC maintenance team had restored light to some of the major streets like Musa Yar’ Adua, Solomon Lar (Jabi) and Hassan Katsina while officials of the company would continue to carry out invention on all 21 lots in the city and ensure that within a short possible time, light is restored to the vandalised major roads.

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