The Kogi State Police Command has arrested a tricycle operator, Abdulmumin Jimoh, for robbing his passenger of two Android phones, some cash and an ATM card in the Lokoja metropolis.
Spokesman for the Kogi State Police Command, DSP Williams Ovye Aya, who disclosed this in a statement Thursday, said the suspect was arrested by operatives of Operation Puff Adder, through synergy with members of the vigilante.
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He said the arrest was made following reports that the suspect together with his gang members now at large, robbed a passenger who boarded the suspect’s tricycle from the Dumanis Church junction, along Ganaja road to Ganaja, Lokoja metropolis.
He said it was immediately after the 200 units junction, one of the gangs who posed as a passenger covered the victim’s mouth and put a knife on her neck, in which they dispossessed her of two Android phones, voters card, ATM card and a sum of N10,000 cash.
“It was thereafter the tricycle operator now pushed her out of the Keke and ran away. And immediately, the victim stopped another tricycle and narrated her ordeal. They both raised alarm which attracted the police on patrol in the area.
According to him, on sighting the police, the tricycle operator and his robbery gang abandoned the tricycle with registration number MPA 139 VC and escaped, saying the tricycle was recovered and taken to the police station.
Aya said during interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime, saying efforts were ongoing to arrest other members of the syndicate that are still at large, adding that the suspect would be arraigned in court upon completion of the investigation.
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