Car wash operator absconds with customer’s vehicle

The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old car wash operator, Abdullahi Sabo, for allegedly absconding with his customer’s vehicle.

The command said the suspect, who worked in a car wash at Maidile Quarters of Kumbotso Local Government Area, was arrested at Daura, Katsina State, in possession of the stolen car.

Confirming the arrest, Spokesman of the Command in Kano, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said police had on November 30 received a complaint from a resident of Badawa Quarters in Kano, that a car wash operator had run away with her Honda Accord 2017 model.

He said: “On November 30, 2021 at about 2pm, a report was received from a resident of Badawa Quarters, Kano, that on the same date at about 2pm, she took her Honda Accord 2017 Model, valued N8,500,000:00 to a carwash located at Maidile Quarters, Kumbotso LGA, Kano State.

“When she went back, she discovered that the motor vehicle and the car wash cleaner were nowhere to be found.

“On preliminary investigation, the owner of the car wash was invited. He claimed to have hired the services of one Abdullahi, without knowing his identity. He left him alone based on trust at the car wash where he made away with the said customer’s car”

He said a team of Operation Puff Adder was raised under CSP Alabi Lateef, who went and arrested the culprit at his home town in Daura of Katsina State.

Kiyawa said the suspect has confessed to have stolen the vehicle at the said car wash in Kano where he was hired, with intent to sell it, and that investigation is in progress.