4 jailed for assaulting EEDC staff, vandalising electric installation

An Oke Uvuru Magistrates’ Court, Mbaise, Imo State, has sentenced three men to one year imprisonment each for attacking officials of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) and unleashing machete cuts on one of them while they were on official duty. Chika George (32) Simon Nmerole (61) and Jonah Eberechi (20) were convicted on a […]

An Oke Uvuru Magistrates’ Court, Mbaise, Imo State, has sentenced three men to one year imprisonment each for attacking officials of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) and unleashing machete cuts on one of them while they were on official duty.

Chika George (32) Simon Nmerole (61) and Jonah Eberechi (20) were convicted on a five-count charge bordering on assault, threat and conspiracy.

The court was told that on September 25, 2017, when the apartment of Simon Nmerole was disconnected for non-payment of electricity bill, instead of arranging to pay the bill, Nmerole went on to mobilise his cohorts who disrupted activities of the EEDC staff. It was in the process that Chika George rushed to the scene with a machete and inflicted cuts on one of the staff.

In a similar development, another chief magistrates’ court in Oyi, Nteje, Anambra State, has sentenced 19-year-old Chukwudi Igboekwuto to 30 months imprisonment for attacking and vandalising a distribution substation belonging to EEDC, located at Genesis Estate, Omife 3-3, Anambra State.