Kuni .G. Isaac
The Kano State Police Command has arrested a suspect, Sadiq Isma’il,18, for burglary and theft and recovered eleven stolen Plasma TV sets.
Spokesperson of the command, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa Haruna, who revealed in a statement, the receiver of the stolen items, Abdullahi Muktar.
Word from the PPRO, the has it that Isma’il, broke into a shop at Sharada Quarters and made away with the sixteen Plasma TV sets worth N1.2m.
The suspect owned up on selling all the stolen TV sets for N350,000:00) and used part of the money to lodge in a hotel with his girlfriend.
Statement following the incident
“On receiving complaint, the Commissioner of Police, Kano State Command, CP Sama’ila Shu’aibu Dikko, fsi raised and instructed a team of Detectives led by SP Abdulrahim Adamu, Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Sharada Division to trace and arrest the perpetrator(s).
“Sustained intelligence-led follow-up resulted in the arrest of the suspect, Sadiq Isma’il of Rijiyar Lemo Quarters Kano, at a Hotel in Nassarawa LGA, Kano State where he lodged. On preliminary investigation, the suspect confessed that he singlehandedly burgled the shop
“He further confessed that he sold all the sixteen (16) Plasma TVs at Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N350,000:00), at Twenty-One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Seventy-Five Naira (N21,875:00) each, where he used part of the money to lodge in a hotel with his girlfriend.
“afterwards further investigation led to the arrest of the receiver, Abdullahi Muktar, 20 years old of Gama Quarters Kano at the same hotel with the Sadiq.
Abdullahi then cooperated with the police on the retrieval of eleven (11) of the lifted Plasma TVs from the Kano and Bauchi States.”
The Commissioner of Police gave orders for deeper restrained investigations, after which the suspects will be charged to court for trial.
He acclaimed the effort of the Police Officers that partook in the investigation and further reiterates that criminals will have no hiding place in Kano State.
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