Two in custody for theft
The police in
Kaduna yesterday recovered the sum of N250,000 from two men who
allegedly snatched the money from a woman coming out of a new
generation bank on Ahmadu Bello Way in the Kaduna State capital.
An eye witness
confirmed that the two suspects who came with a motorcycle waylaid
their victim at the bank gate, and as the woman was coming out of the
bank, they snatched her purse containing the money and sped off.
According to the
eye witness, it was the woman’s shouting of “Barawo” (thief in Hausa)
which attracted the police stationed at the NEPA Roundabout very close
to the bank, that led to their arrests.
The arrest of the
two suspects, however, attracted the presence of many commercial
motorcyclists popularly known as “Achaba” riders who demanded that the
Policed should hand over the suspects to them so that they could burn
them to death for using a motorcycle in the robbery.
Their threat to
burn down the bank if the two suspects were not released to them was
resisted by the combined team of the “Operation Yaki” outfit who used
force to disperse them around the bank premises.
Meanwhile, the suspects have been remanded in Police custody for further investigation.
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