Vigilantes have arrested a 48-year-old cattle dealer identified as Zubairu Yakubu for allegedly buying a stolen goat at Kwali market in Kwali Area Council of the FCT.
A member of the vigilante, Danlami Isaac, said the incident happened on Saturday, when a case of missing goat was reported to the vigilantes in the area.
He said the vigilantes immediately swung into action. They went into the market, alongside the owner of the goat, which they found from the cattle dealer.
“It was upon receiving the report that Saturday, when the vigilantes and the owner of the goat went into the market, where the goat was found tied to a tree at the market and the owner identified it to be his own,” he said.
He said the cattle dealer confessed to buying the stolen goat at a cost of N55,000 from one Aminu, even as he said the man had been handed over to security personnel.
The vigilante member, further confided in our reporter that the man had always been suspected of buying stolen goats, sheep and chickens from suspected hoodlums in neighbouring communities.
He said the vigilantes were still on the trail of the main suspect who is at large.
The spokeswoman of the FCT police command, SP Adeh Josephine, said she was not aware of the incident but that she would find out and revert.
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