Thursday, May 8, 2025 - The Niger State Police Command has arrested two suspects who allegedly specialised in theft of tricycles.
The spokesperson of the command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, who
disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, May 5, 2025, said Abdulaziz Salisu,
went to a mosque at Dakwa under the pretence of observing morning prayers and
made away with a tricycle.
He allegedly handed stolen tricycle to Abubakar Mohammed to
sell it to a buyer in Katsina State.
“On 3rd May,
2025 at approximately 2.30pm, acting on credible information, Police operatives
attached to Maje Div arrested two suspects who specialised in theft of
tricycles,” the statement read.
“The
suspects are; Abdulaziz Salisu 19yrs of Madalla, Suleja and Abubakar Mohammed
of Chachi village, Sabon-Wuse.
"Investigation
revealed that on 2nd May, 2025 at about 5am, the said Abdulaziz went to a
mosque at Dakwa with the pretence to observe morning prayers, and when the
prayers commenced, he ran out of the mosque and made away with a tricycle with
Reg. No. GUS 16 VC.
“Police
operatives on stop and search at Maje Bridge intercepted the tricycle suspected
to have been stolen, and during interrogation, he confessed that he stole the
tricycle and that he was taken it to Abubakar Mohammed who would facilitate the
movement of the tricycle to Katsina State to the buyer.”
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