The Zamfara state command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corp (NSCDC) has arrested three suspected motorcycle snatchers and recovered one Boxer motorcycle (Bajaj) as Commandant Sani Mustafa reiterated zero tolerance on crime and crime in the state.
Parading the suspects on Monday evening at command headquarters, the Zamfara State NSCDC commandant Mustafa who was represented by the command public relations officer Sc Ikor Oche revealed that NSCDC is on red alert to bad elements with the aim to curb the rising wave of insecurity in the state.
” Our men have clamped down on a group of notorious syndicates who specializes in strangling their victims to death, especially Okada riders, in other to snatch their motorcycles (popularly known as OKADA)”.
He further explained that the group of suspects were believe to be operating within Furfuri and Bungudu axis along Sokoto Road.
“Fortunately, the operatives of the Corps acting on credible intelligence, arrested these suspects when they attempted to sniff life out of one of their victims around Gada Biyu area of Gusau.”
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According to him, the suspects were apprehended after they struck the victim with a hard stick, with the intent to kill him and make away with the motorcycle at about 1400 hours on the 26th of April 2024.
“The victim is however alive and receiving treatment due to the timely intervention of the NSCDC operatives”.
SC Oche said, “Preliminary investigations revealed that these suspects had conspired with one Sani Samaila (at large), a motorcycle dealer at yarDole Motorcycle market Gusau who receives every motorcycle Snatched by this gang”.
The suspects Abdulkarim Usman, Abubakar Ibrahim and Naziru Bala confessed to have snatched a motorcycle shortly before the Ramadan period and sold same to Sani at the rate of N170,000.00.
Commandant Sani Mustapha has reiterated his stance on
zero tolerance for crimes in Zamfara State advised the general public to be vigilant and to always properly screen the kind of people they relate with.
He maintained that at the end of the investigations, all the suspects will be arraigned in the court for onward prosecution in the state.
. TheWitness
