Police arrest suspected tricycle operator robber
28-year-old Sani Abdullahi, a resident of Anguwa three quarters who is a tricycle operator popularly known as Keke NAPEP, has been arrested by Gombe State Police command for allegedly stealing from his passengers.
Abdullahi, was said to on two occasions sped off with goods of his passengers upon arrival at their destinations.
According to a press statement issued on Sunday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer ASP Mahid Abubakar, crime has taken another shape, stressing that the Command under Commissioner of Police Oqua Etim would double effort to fish out the criminal elements and bring them to book.
He lamented how Abdullahi sped with items bought by a police officer’s wife and the charcoal of a trader in Nayinawa area, revealing that the officer already noted his tricycle details before been alerted about the incidence.
The statement partly read, “On the 7th February,2023 at about 5pm the 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 three quarters who is a tricycle operator popularly known as Keke NAPEP.
“On the said Date Insp.Hamza Muhammad attached to 34 PMF Gombe boarded a tricycle with his wife from the Gombe main market to Yalenguruza quarters gombe alongside the goods purchased from the market valued 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.”
While disclosing that the receiver of the stolen items who bought the items for N4000 was also arrested for an offence of receiving stolen property, Abubakar noted that suspects have confessed to having committed the offence, would be charged to court for prosecution.
“Similarly on the 09/02/2023 the suspect repeated same act on one of his customer who boarded the tricycle with 3 bags of charcoal leaving her helpless at Nayinawa quarters which led 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 statement added.
