Thursday, December 25, 2025 - The Niger State Police Command has arrested a suspected robber for attempted m8rder of a commercial motorcyclist.
The spokesperson of the command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, who
disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, December 24, 2025 said the suspect
identified as Mohammed Adamu and his accomplice, posed as passengers and hired
the motorcyclist to convey them to a particular destination.
However, on getting to a point, they told the motorcyclist
to divert to a lonely road.
One of the suspects attacked the victim with an iron and
they carted away his bike.
“On December 21, 2025 at about 9.45pm, a report received at
Maje Div indicated that a commercial motorcyclist within Maje, conveyed two
passengers from Auwal Ibrahim modern market to Maje, and while on their way
heading to Maje, the passengers requested the rider to divert to a lonely road,
indicating that they would prefer to stop at a point along the road,” the
statement read.
"On getting to a point, they stopped and attempted to
pay the rider. In the course of this, one of the passengers used an iron to hit
the rider on the head, and went away with the Bajaj motorcycle.
"On the receipt of this information, the Police
operatives of the Div on stop and search at Maje nipping point were alerted and
within a short period of time, one of the suspects who was later identified as
Mohammed Adamu 28yrs, was accosted with the said unregistered Bajaj motorcycle.
"The suspect confessed to the crime, and mentioned his
accomplice as Ahmed of Deidei presently at large. He claimed that Ahmed
recruited him from Bauchi for this act and this is his first time.
“The motorcycle was recovered, effort to arrest the said
Ahmed is in progress, while the victim is responding to treatment in a medical
facility.”
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