A man from Njabini, Nyandarua County, was on Thursday, March 8 electrocuted to death after attempting to vandalise a transformer.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the man was struck by electric current and thrown over 20 metres away from the transformer where his lifeless body was recovered.
“The man whose identity could not be immediately established had attempted to tamper with the working mechanism of a high voltage transformer in Njabini, Nyandarua county, but his plans backfired after he was struck by electric current from its live cables and catapulted over 20 metres away from the transformer where his lifeless body was recovered.
“School-going kids walking along kwa White area yesterday morning found his motionless body sprawled along the road with his left foot gumboot missing. It was later discovered on the opposite side of the road,” the DCI said.
The DCI added that prints of the deceased’s gumboots were written all over the electricity poles indicating that the man who was dressed in an orange apron, had scaled them while going for the transformer.
“But it is the action of the man’s accomplices whose foot thuds were heard miles away as they escaped from the scene that shocked the villagers, clearly demonstrating that there is no honour among thieves,” the DCI added.
The body of the deceased was moved to Engineer hospital mortuary awaiting identification by the kin.
