*NIGERIA SECURITY AND CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS (NSCDC)*
*NASARAWA STATE COMMAND*

*PRESS STATEMENT*

*30th SEPTEMBER, 2022*

*NSCDC ARRESTED 18 YEAR OLD FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN NASARAWA*

Following zero tolerant to crime and criminality in Nasarawa State, declared by the State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Nasarawa State Command, *Comdt Abbas Bappa Muhammed msgt* in Lafia recently, the Command has arrested one Muhammed Hussaini 18yrs m' who reside at Shendam road, Lafia, for armed robbery.

While parading the suspect at the Command Headquarters in Lafia, the State Commandant *Abbas Bappa Muhammed msgt* who spoke through the Public Relations Officer *DSC Jerry Victor* said, the suspect, Mohammed Hussaini and his gang attacked some boys rearing cattle behind City Hall, in Lafia Nasarawa state with a locally fabricated pistol, but he fled the scene when he and his gang were overpowered by the boys, leaving his pistol.

The owner of the cattle reported the case to the Command Headquarters in Lafia on the 17th of August, 2022.

The suspect was on the wanted list of the intelligence, until he was arrested on Monday 26th September, 2022.

He will be handed over to the Nigeria Police Force, Nasarawa State Command for further Investigation and prosecution, as he was on their wanted list too for a crime he committed sometimes ago.

The suspect have confessed to the crime and pleaded for leniency. He attributed it to the handy work of the devil.

The State Commandant call on the youth to shun all forms of social vise's and engage themselves on meaningful ventures that will make good ambassadors of the Country, he also pleaded with the good people of the state to make available credible and reliable information to security agencies closer to them. When you see something, say something and do something, he concluded.

E- Signed:

*DSC JERRY VICTOR*
*PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER*
*NSCDC NASARAWA STATE COMMAND*

No justification for crime But things are very hard in the country that is why We don't want anything APC or Tinubu again