mabeni: Sokoto State Police command has recovered and
returned N15million which was stolen from an
unidentified man by a 5-man armed robbery gang
at the Ilela border market in Ilela LGA of Sokoto
state on June 1st.
Parading the suspects with the money recovered at
the Sokoto state Police command headquarters,
DCP Douglas Agbonleni who spoke on behalf of the
Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, Gambo
Lawal, gave an insight on how the robbers were
able to dislodge their victim of the money and how
they were subsequently caught.
"The robbery operation was successful as they
were able to dispossess their target of over N15
million cash at the Ilela border market, after firing
into the air to scare people. We received the
information at about 6pm on June 1 and instantly
went on stop-and-search operation and our men at
Rabbah local government found a black colour
Volkswagen Golf car with registration number
Jigawa AG 569 HJA along the forest route and
apprehended three of the criminals while the other
two escaped" he said.
The three robbers arrested were identified as
Joseph Ohakin, ThankGod Sunday, Emmanuel Ugo
(aka Ifeanyi). Apart from the money, other items
recovered from them were weapons including
locally made and foreign assorted rifles neatly
concealed in the seats of the vehicle.
The Police said after they arrested the armed
robbers in the bush, the robbers offered to give
them the stolen N15million on the condition that
they let them go, but the police men declined the
offer. The police then launched a search for the
remaining two robbers who escaped. A mobile
phone which they used in communicating was
used to track down the other two criminals.
"When the first three were arrested, we searched
the vehicle and recovered the money, we
discovered a GSM telephone and upon diligent
investigation, we traced that phone to Kano and
our detectives proceeded to Kano where we were
able to trace the owner of that phone who was a
member of the robbery gang and had escaped
from Illela.
We discovered that the telephone belongs to one
Habibu Abdullahi (Alias 02). He is popularly called
02 in Kano. We picked him up and we knew that
they were about five members in that gang. So
after arresting and interrogating Habibu Abdullahi,
the fifth member of the gang, Garba Ismail was
traced to a suburb of Kano and picked up also. So
all the five members of the gang that came here to
rob at the Illela town have been picked up,” he
said.
The owner of the N15m stolen who was present at
the press briefing confirmed he had received his
money

mabeni:
The Police said after they arrested the armed
robbers in the bush, the robbers offered to give them the stolen N15million on the condition that they let them go, but the police men declined the offer.

yimikaa:
How can a Nigerian police officer refuse that amount of money . Something is not right.

ARES: they should equally arrest the owner of the 15m, in this cashless system, what are u doing with 15m cash.....
the only business that requires that kind of money in cash is always illegal business

yimikaa:

How can a Nigerian police officer refuse that amount of money . Something is not right.

adebayo201:
Yes something is not right cos not all Nigeria police are the same!
Please, you can believe them if it's for once! Not all those on that black khaki are actually black in mind.
My mind tho!

DONMAYOR19: everything is right bro, no be everybody corrupt for Nigeria, we still have good ones just like this police men and me typing this. All what the police men wanted was to track down the criminals and thank God they succeeded in doing that....what await the police men now is promotion, which they will surely get..

emekatimsu: This one no be news na..Armed robbers and hardend criminals are caught everyday by the law enforcemnt officers,, OPC and bakassi.

gbaskiboy: The future is a bit clear, i can see the end of corruption in Nigeria Police Force...

YoursGEJ: I dey sure say na for dream I dey browse nairaland come see this story