Two suspected tricycle thieves have been arrested by the Kano State Police Command which also recovered the two tricycles stolen by the suspects and handed them over to their rightful owners.
A statement released on Thursday by the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Haruna, said the recovery was made possible through a well-coordinated intelligence-led raid on criminal hideouts in Dambatta LGA, Kano State, on December 9, 2024.
“During the operation, two suspects, Ado Yusuf, 40, and Rabi’u Suleiman, 35, were arrested, and the two tricycles were recovered from them,” Haruna said.
He said on preliminary investigations, the suspects could not give a satisfactory account of the tricycles.
“Following the command’s press conference of December 10, 2024, on December 17, 2024, the owner of one of the tricycles, with registration number KGM 246VC, appeared at the command’s headquarters.
“The owner revealed that the suspects had drugged the tricycle rider, Mamman Musa, and stole the tricycle.”
Haruna explained that the victim was rushed to the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, Kano and later transferred to the Kano Reformatory Institute Kiru, treated and then discharged adding that the victim identified one of the suspects as the person who drugged him.
He said the tricycle had been handed over to the owner, saying the state Commissioner of Police, CP Salman Dogo Garba, had ordered a discreet investigation, after which the suspects would be charged in court.
“The command urges members of the public who have fallen victim to similar crimes, specifically those whose tricycles have been snatched through drugging or other means, to report to the office of the Police Public Relations Officer at the command’s headquarters, Bompai, for possible identification ,” the statement noted.
