- Motorcycle armed robbery on the rise in some parts of Jigawa
- Suspects will be charged to court
Police in Jigawa State have busted two motorcycle robbery gangs who have been dispossessing the public of their belongings.
Spokesman of the command, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, confirmed the incident in a statement issued during the week.
According to him, the arrest followed the intensified efforts of the command to curb motorcycle robbery and other criminal activities in the state.
It was learnt that motorcycle armed robbery had surged in some parts of the state resulting in death and injury of the owners.
He said suspects were arrested in two different operations in Ringim and Dutse local government.
“09/07/2023 at about 2000hrs a 24-year-old Ashiru Musa of Kyaran village Dutse LGA reported that his motorcycle was snatched by some criminals who have disguised as passengers.
“The cyclists forced him to stop, threatened him with knives, and robbed him of his red Boxer motorcycle with reg no. AYE 918 UP Ogun State,” he said.
Adam said on receipt of the report, the patrol team attached to Fanisau Division swiftly swung into action with the assistance of hunters and arrested 19-year-old Tijjani Haruna and 25-year-old Baballe Abdulrahman, both of Gyabiya Village Dutse LGA.
He added that the other three suspects, Ahmadu Audu, Shuaibu Bayeri, and Samaila Musa, were arrested in Ringim local government by police and local vigilantes following a tip-off.
He said during interrogation, the suspects confessed to having used the knives and cable to rob a motorcycle.
Suspects will be charged to court for prosecution upon completion of the investigation.
In the other news, a 21-year-old suspected vandal of transformer armoured cable, Timothy Marcus has escaped death in Jigawa State.
The incident happened on Tuesday at Shagari quarters in Dutse, the state capital, after the residents saw the suspect trying to move the armoured cable out of the transformer.
Spokesman of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Jigawa State, CSC. Adamu Shehu confirmed the incident to DAILY POST.
He said at about 1330hrs, the NSCDC received a report that a suspected electricity transformer armoured cable thief was caught by residents of Shagari quarters and seriously beaten.
Adamu said as a result, the NSCDC response squad was mobilised to the scene where the suspect was rescued, arrested, and then taken to the hospital for medical treatment.
He said after the treatment, the suspect confessed that he was invited by his friends Jamilu, aka Samari, and one other who is now at large, to partake in the stripping and packaging of the transformer armoured cable.
The NSCDC spokesman noted that it was a case of vandalization, theft, and criminal conspiracy contrary to section 1(9) of the miscellaneous offenses act, sections 286 and 96 of the State Penal Code Law, respectively.
He said the suspect would be charged to court after investigations.
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