According to reports, the incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning, January 19, 2022.

Naziru Lambu, a resident of the village, told Daily Trust that the man ran out of luck. He was electrocuted after successfully removing some of the cables in the transformer.

Lambu also stated that the suspect was discovered dead on the transformer, along with his phone and SIM cards.

Officials from the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, police, and Kano Electricity and Distribution Company (KEDCO) representatives have arrived in Lambu to investigate the incident, he added.

Sharing photos of the electrocuted man on the transformer, Najib Sani wrote on Facebook;

“19/01/2022

One of the thieves that have gone to steal Lambu fegi transformer has been electrocuted to death!!”