Two former employees of NEPA (the defunct National Electricity Power Authority) were arrested by Oyo State Police. They are accused of stealing transformers and illegally possessing firearms.

On Monday, October 31, the suspects were paraded in front of newsmen along with fifteen other criminals at Ibadan's state police headquarters.

Briefing journalists, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Adewale Osifeso, said that the command's anti-crime patrol arrested the two former NEPA employees following credible intelligence about their activities.

Osifeso said that the suspects were arrested on Saturday in the Aroje area of Ogbomoso. He said that five other suspects were arrested along with the former NEPA staff over the alleged transformer theft.

He added that one big transformer valued at N5 million and a Toyota DAINA Truck used to convey the transformer were recovered from the suspects.

The PPRO said the suspects confessed to having removed the transformer from where it was installed for onward movement to their criminal receiver in Lagos State.