Police In Gombe Arrest Tricycle Operator Who Specializes In Stealing From Passengers
Sani
Abdullahi has been arrested by the Gombe state police command for allegedly
stealing goods belonging to the passengers who use his tricycle.
ASP Mahid Mu'azu
Abubakar, the spokesperson of the State Police Command revealed this in a
statement on Sunday, February 12, 2023. In the statement, he revealed that the
suspect always zooms off with his passenger's goods after they alight from his
tricycle.
On the 7th February 2023 at about 5 pm Operation
Hattara which is an operational outfit under the police force Gombe State
command intercepted a suspect named Sani Abdullahi of 28years, a resident of
Anguwa 3 quarters who is a tricycle operator popularly known as Keke Napep, the
statement read.
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"On the said Date Insp. Hamza Muhammad attached to 34 PMF
Gombe boarded a tricycle with his wife from the Gombe main market to Yalan-
guruza quarters Gombe alongside the goods purchased from the market valued at fifty
thousand naira #50,000.
"The husband dropped along Bank road leaving his wife to
complete the journey to their residence, on arrival, the wife alighted with her
child and before she remove the food items, the suspect zoomed off with the
items to an unknown destination.
"Unfortunately for the suspect the husband took a grap of
his means of identification before he dropped and reported the case to the
Police (Operation Hattara).
"Similarly on 09/02/2023, the suspect repeated the same act
on one of his customers who boarded the tricycle with 3 bags of charcoal
leaving her helpless at Nayinawa quarters which lead to his arrest by the
tricycle riders association of Gombe and immediately handed over to Operation
Hattara who gave out his details to the association in connection to the first
case.
The receiver of the
stolen items who bought the items for #4000 naira was also arrested for the
offense of receiving stolen property. The suspects have confessed to having
committed the offense, exhibits were recovered and the case will be charged to
court for prosecution.
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