Occupants of Ojoto, Wokoma, Elechi and Ekwe roads in Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt City Chamber of Waterways State, have been tossed into obscurity after a few outfitted men vandalized a transformer nearby.
On Monday morning, the inhabitants awakened to figure out that the transformer situated at Elechi/Wokom Road had been messed with throughout the night by miscreants.
A source said the miscreants who were furnished accompanied a Hilux vehicle at around 3:30 am on Monday, the fifteenth of January, to vandalize the transformer.
As per an occupant of the area, Stephen Rowland, the criminals were around six in number; four were working on the transformer, while two were mounted at the edges of the fenced move with their firearms.
“So nothing we can do, no one will proceed to battle someone that is holding a firearm.
“They gathered the shielded link, anything that they realize that is important that will give them cash. The main thing left that they didn’t take from that transformer is the actual transformer (holder). Be that as it may, everything, they gathered it.
“We have not answered to the Police but rather we have answered to Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED). They know about it,” he made sense of.
It was seen that the cast concrete utilized in covering the heavily clad links at the ground level was broken by the punks while a few links were cut.
