Bauchi police apprehend man for stealing 20 motorcycles over four year

The Bauchi State Police Command has detained a 30-year-old man with a fame for stealing bikes.

The suspects, Kabiru Danfulani, who’s now at giant, and Bello Mohammed, also called Faruk Manja, each dwell within the Bakaro neighbourhood of the Bauchi metropolis and have been doing legal actions for greater than 4 years.

When questioned, the suspect admitted that he and his companion (Danfulani) had stolen greater than 20 bikes over the course of the investigation, in accordance with Ahmed Wakil, the police public relations officer for the Bauchi state command, who made this data accessible to state media.

The 2-man gang, in accordance with Wakil, a superintendent of police, has been terrorising the states of Yobe and Bauchi.
In line with him, the suspects entered right into a resident’s home on Previous Airport Highway in GRA and took a bike that was in skeletal situation and a Honda Civic valued at N640,000, in addition to criminally conspired amongst themselves.

He claims that they had been unsuccessful of their try and flee with the stolen automobile after the sufferer reported the crime to the police, who shortly reacted and apprehended them.
“The Command has detained a two-man squad that has been engaged in nefarious actions inside Bauchi and different neighbouring States for roughly 4 years, with a give attention to snatching bikes.”At round 6:30 a.m. on August 24, 2023, a male named Aliyu Muhammad Gidado of the previous Airport Highway GRA in Bauchi reported to the B’ Divisional Police Headquarters within the metropolis of Bauchi that at round 4 a.m. on the identical day, he had realized that Bello Mohammed, also called Faruk Manja, a male (30), of the Bakaro neighbourhood of Bauchi and Kabiru Danfulani, a male of Muda Lawal
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“Upon receiving the criticism, a group of detectives underneath the course of the DPO B’ Division, CSP Holman Simon, instantly sprang into motion and knowledgeable different Police patrol groups/divisions each inside and out of doors the State of the occasion.

Consequently, because the thieves tried to flee within the stolen automotive alongside the Maiduguri-Bauchi route, cops assigned to the Soro Division, underneath the course of SP Aliyu Goni, the division’s DPO, stopped the automotive and detained one of many offenders.

“Throughout interrogation, the primary suspect voluntarily confessed to having been a bike thief for about 4 years and roughly stole 20 Jincheng robber bikes and carried such menace in numerous areas of Bauchi and Yobe States, respectively,” he mentioned. “The second suspect is presently at giant.”

Whereas an investigation is ongoing and makes an attempt are being stepped as much as apprehend the opposite eluding accomplices, he claimed that the suspects’ stolen automotive and the wrecked bike have been seized from them. The suspects would then be charged in court docket.