A 35-year-old man was detained by Jigawa State Police Command for allegedly stealing an automobile from a dealer in neighboring Bauchi State.
DSP Lawan Shi’isu, the state Police Public Relations Officer, revealed this in a statement in Dutse on Monday.
Shi’isu added that the suspect, a native of the FCT’s Gwarinpa quarters, was apprehended by police in the state’s Birnin Kudu Local Government Area about 11:20 a.m. on Sunday.
Police caught a man with a white Honda car on Sunday at 11:20 a.m. The car had no license plate and police think it was stolen. The man was 35 and lived in Gwarimpa Quarters FCT, Abuja..
The driver wouldn’t stop and drove fast when the patrol men tried to stop him.”
He added that while trying to dodge the police, the suspect smashed a cyclist, which resulted to the car being hooked and forcefully stopped.
Speaking further, Shi’isu said the suspect, alighted from the car and took to his heels, but was later arrested and brought to the station.
He stated that the police had previously received a distress call from adjacent Bauchi state, claiming that three unknown individuals went to S Fawa Motors on Murtala Muhammad Way in Bauchi and claimed to buy the stolen automobile.
He stated that the suspects asked a test drive before paying.
“However, one of the salesmen insisted on accompanying them, and as they were driving away, the suspected vehicle thieves forcibly expelled him and zoomed off with the car, leaving him stranded.”
The genuine owner of the automobile, according to the police chief, has now been identified as Usman Zubairu of Federal Lowcost, Bauchi.
He went on to say that the state’s Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ekot, had ordered that the investigation be moved to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).