Bauchi police detain man for stealing 20 motorcycles in four years

The Bauchi State Police Command has taken into custody a 30-year-old man with a history of stealing motorcycles.

Bello Mohammed, also known as Faruk Manja, a native of Bauchi’s Bakaro Area, and Kabiru Danfulani, who is currently at large, have been committing these heinous crimes for more than four years.

The suspect admitted to stealing more than 20 motorcycles over the course of the investigation, according to the police public relations officer for the Bauchi state command, Ahmed Wakil, who made this claim in a statement made available to state media.

Read Also: APC USA cautions protesters not to interfere with Tinubu’s visit to UN Assembly 

The two-man gang has been terrorising the states of Yobe and Bauchi, according to Wakil, a superintendent of police.
According to him, the suspects entered into a man’s home on Old Airport Road in GRA and stole a motorbike with no engine and a Honda Civic valued N640,000 from him.

He claimed that they had bad luck when the victim reported the event to the police, who quickly acted and apprehended them as they tried to flee in the stolen car.
“The Command has detained a two-man squad that has been engaged in nefarious activity in Bauchi and other neighbouring States for about four years and is skilled in stealing motorcycles,” the statement reads.On August 24, 2023, at around 6.30 am, a male named Aliyu Muhammad Gidado of old Airport Road GRA, Bauchi, reported to B’ Divisional Police Headquarters, the city of Bauchi, that on the same day at around 4 am, he discovered that Bello Mohammed, also known as Faruk Manja, a male (30) from the Bakaro neighbourhood of Bauchi, and Kabiru Danfulani, a male from Muda Lawal, Bauchi, who are both currently

“Upon receiving the complaint, a team of detectives under the direction of DPO B’ Division CSP Holman Simon sprang into action and immediately distributed information about the occurrence to other Police patrol teams/divisions both inside and outside the State.

The police officers assigned to the Soro Division, commanded by SP Aliyu Goni, the DPO of the Soro Division, intercepted the motor vehicle as the thieves attempted to flee with the stolen car along the Maiduguri-Bauchi road. One of the offenders was then apprehended.

According to him, “during questioning, the first suspect voluntarily confessed to having been a motorcycle thief for about four years and approximately stole 20 Jincheng robber motorcycles and carried such menace in different areas of Bauchi and Yobe States, respectively. The second suspect is currently at large.”

He stated that while an investigation is ongoing and attempts are being increased to apprehend the remaining eluding accomplices, the suspects’ stolen car and wrecked motorbike have been seized from them. The suspects would then be charged in court, he added.