Police arrest suspected armed robbers, recover three cars in Katsina

The Katsina State Police Command has arrested 3 suspects progressive successful abstracted incidents of equipped robbery and car theft successful Katsina.

According to the Command’s spokesperson, ASP Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu, 1 of the suspects, 45-year-old Sabi’u Musa, was arrested connected May 1st, 2024, successful transportation with a lawsuit of equipped robbery and car theft.

He said, “following a tip-off astir a stolen Lexus saloon car, with registration fig LND 215 GD, detectives tracked the conveyance down to the Katsina-Jibia roadworthy and apprehended Musa successful possession of the stolen vehicle, which had reportedly been snatched astatine gunpoint successful neighboring Kano State.

“During questioning, Musa confessed that helium was heading to Maradi, Niger Republic, wherever helium planned to merchantability the car.”

In a related development, ASP Sadiq disclosed that connected April 27th, 2024, the Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit located different stolen conveyance from Kano, a achromatic Vibe saloon car with registration fig DKA 71 PX.

ASP Sadiq said the stolen conveyance was traced to Liyafa roundabout, Katsina, successful the custody of 2 suspects, Abdulaziz Ibrahim (29) and Haruna Sani (47), some from Kano State.

During interrogation, Sani admitted to deceiving the proprietor into giving him the car, which helium planned to merchantability successful Katsina earlier helium was arrested.