Police in Northeast Bauchi arrest six for armed robbery
BY BABAGANA JIDDA KANEMPRESS
29TH JULY, 2023
The Nigeria police has arrested a suspect who allegedly removed the hand of a 25-year old man and stabbed him on the head.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Northeast Bauchi State, Ahmed Wakil, said the suspect had been on the command’s wanted list for two years over thuggery and causing grievous harm.
Wakil said the suspect committed the crime with two others still at large.
He noted that his luck ran out when a police patrol team raided a black spot at a suburb of Bauchi metropolis and arrested him.
“On Saturday, July 22, 2023 at about 6.30pm, police operatives attached to ‘C’ Divisional Headquarters, while on a visibility policing patrol, identified and raided a black spot located at Sabon Layi, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis which led to the arrest of one Muhammad Abdullahi, aka Luwawu, male, of the same address,” Wakil said.
He has been on the police watch list since 2021 for alleged criminal conspiracy, thuggery, causing grievous hurt and attempting to commit an offence to wit culpable homicide.
“Sometime in 2021, the suspect criminally conspired with Sani Danfada, male, Manu Maidawa and two others, now at large, all of the same address, while armed with machetes and other deadly weapons attacked and stabbed one Mubarak Abdullahi, male (25) of Unguwan Sarakuna
area on his head and cut off his left hand from the Articulatio radiocaplis,” he said.
Wakil said that investigation showed that the suspects committed the alleged offence, as Abdullahi confessed to committing the offence during interrogation.”
He said that efforts are to track the remaining suspects, and so that they can be charged to court.
Similarly, Wakil said detectives attached to ‘C’ divisional police headquarters arrested six suspected thugs of the dreaded Sara-Suka group.
He said that they were arrested on Sunday, July 23, 2023 at about 7.30pm while raiding a criminal hideout situated at Nasarawan Madina Quarters Bauchi.
He said preliminary investigation revealed that “the suspects are into armed robbery and act of thuggery.”
He said exhibits recovered from them include one long knife and some dry leaves suspected to be cannabis sativa, popularly known as Indian hemp, adding that during interrogation, the suspects confessed to the crime.
