Scrap dealers challenge Zulum over alleged ₦3bn power cable theft

Nigeria’s scrap dealers association has challenged Borno Governor Babagana Zulum to provide evidence linking its members to the alleged theft of cables from a ₦3 billion Damaturu-Maiduguri electricity project. The National Association of Scrap and Waste Dealers Employers of Nigeria has challenged Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum to provide evidence supporting his claim that metal scavengers stole electrical...

• Nigeria’s scrap dealers association has challenged Borno Governor Babagana Zulum to provide evidence linking its members to the alleged theft of cables from a ₦3 billion Damaturu-Maiduguri electricity project.
• The National Association of Scrap and Waste Dealers Employers of Nigeria has challenged Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum to provide evidence supporting his claim that metal scavengers stole electrical cables purchased for a power distribution project valued at more than ₦3 billion.
• The association’s Deputy National President, Aminu Hassan Soja, made the demand in a statement issued on Monday, October 19, 2026, in Kano.Zulum had said at the weekend that the state spent more than ₦3 billion on an electricity distribution line linking Damaturu in Yobe State with Maiduguri, but that the wires were subsequently lost to metal scavenging activities.