2 motorcycles stolen during prayers in FCT mosque

Two motorcycles were reportedly stolen during Taraweeh prayers at Paso central mosque in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT.

A resident of Paso, Mukail Abdulsalam, who confirmed the incident to our reporter on Sunday, said the incident happened on Saturday around 8:29 pm when Muslims were observing Taraweeh prayers at the village’s central mosque.

He said suspected motorcycle thieves forcefully destroyed the keys of the motorcycles and went away with them.

He said the owners of the two motorcycles, Lawali and Dahiru, raised an alarm when they came out of the mosque and could not find the motorcycles where they were parked.

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“Since the commencement of Ramadan, the owners of the motorcycles usually come with them to the mosque for the congregational Taraweeh prayers at the central mosque, until on Saturday, after the prayers when they raised the alarm that their motorcycles were missing,” he said.

A member of the vigilante in the area who preferred anonymity confirmed that two motorcycles were missing during Taraweeh prayers in the area on Saturday, saying the vigilantes were making efforts to recover them.

The spokeswoman for the FCT Police Command, Adeh Josephine, did not reply to a text message sent to her phone on the incident at the time of filling the report.