Police arrest gang members terrorising travellers in Adamawa
Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command have arrested two suspected armed robbers allegedly terrorising commuters along the Mayo Belwa-Ngurore highway.
The two suspects Ibrahim Sajo and Isiaka Yunusa of Baputolo and Kona communities in Numan Local Government Area have been terrorising the highway which lies south of the state capital, Yola.
According to the police, another suspect escaped as the identified two were being picked up on Saturday the 4th of March, 2023, shortly after their operation along the road on the night of that day.
Ibrahim and the two other suspects had armed themselves with machetes and sticks, blocked the road, and started what they hoped would be another successful day of robbing travellers.
It was however gathered that fate was unkind to them that day as after they succeeded in making away with a bag from one vehicle, they landed in the hands of the law enforcement agents.
The suspects were said to have picked up the bag and given it to Ibrahim who tied it on his motorcycle and left the road, but while on his way back home, Ibrahim had a flat tyre and managed and entered a village and fixed it.
He had another flat tyre shortly after he had repaired the first one, as a result of which he entered a house and pleaded with a man there to keep the bag for him.
He was however suspected by some vigilantes in the community who arrested him, and he confessed to the crime.
He was subsequently taken to the police station where he further confessed that he and his other gang members had been operating on the same road.
A spokesman of the Adamawa State Police Command, SP Suleiman Nguroje, said the state Commissioner of Police, CP Afolabi Adeniyi, had ordered that the suspects be charged in court.
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