An unidentified man has lost his life after being electrocuted at Isale-Agbede in the Lagos Island area.<\/p>\n
It was gathered that the he died while stealing a cable from a transformer in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n Details of the incident remained sketchy as of the time this report was filed.<\/span><\/p>\n A video trending on Friday, showed the body of the deceased trapped between two transformers while about three long cables were also seen at the incident scene.<\/span><\/p>\n It was further learnt that the incident happened a few days after the cables were replaced after the former ones were stolen by suspected louts in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n A tweep identified only as Teewhy, who posted the video, noted that residents of the area often thought the victim was an official of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company.<\/span><\/p>\n He said, \u201cThe guy here tried to steal a cable from a transformer panel but unfortunately \u2018NEPA\u2019 restored light and he was electrocuted. It happened somewhere around Lagos Island. Most people thought it was \u201cNEPA\u2019 officials that do come and steal them.\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Efforts to reach the spokesperson for the EKEDC, Mr Felix Ofulue, were futile as his mobile indicated that it was switched off at the time the report was filed.<\/span><\/p>\n Contacted, the state police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident, saying the man had yet to be identified.<\/span><\/p>\n Hundeyin stated, \u201cWe are aware of the incident but the man has yet to be identified. Investigation is also ongoing.\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An unidentified man has lost his life after being electrocuted at Isale-Agbede in the Lagos Island area. It was gathered that the he died while stealing a cable from a transformer in the area. Details of the incident remained sketchy as of the time this report was filed. A video trending on Friday, showed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5556,5557,5558],"class_list":["post-9781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cable-thief","tag-electrocuted","tag-transformer-panel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9783,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions\/9783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}