Police Arrests 8 Ardent Motorcycles Snatchers, Conspirators 

… Parades Them 

By Joseph Sunday

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The Ekiti State Police Command yesterday has arrested 8 serial motorcycle snatchers, conspirators and paraded them. 

According to the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, for the Ekiti State Police Command, DSP Abutu Sunday, through a press release sent to the media, revealed that due to the recent incessant robberies especially snatching of motorcycles within Ado-Ekiti and other identified areas in the State, the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, CP Akinwale Kunle Adeniran has ordered a serious manhunt for criminal elements who are terrorizing innocent civilians.

Abutu in his press release explained that the order has yielded positive results as the Command Rapid Response Squad (RRS), upon a tip off, arrested one Adebayo Bashiru also known as BASHY, Oluyemi Kunle also known as GBEGBE, Gabriel Isaac, Abubakar Abdullahi, Macon Andrew and Peter Ninfa who are notorious vehicles and motorcycles snatchers within Ikere, Ado-Ekiti and Igede-Ekiti axis of the State. 

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The Ekiti Police PRO pointed out that the suspects, during interrogation, confessed that they have snatched so many motorcycles from their owners within Ikere, Ado, Igede-Ekiti axis and further mentioned one Lawali Ibrahim and Kabiru Abdullahi as their accomplices who usually buy the motorcycles from them after snatching.

“Effort intensified led to the arrest of the three buyers who further confessed that they have transported seven of the stolen motorcycles to the Northern part of Nigeria for resale.

“One unregistered Yellow Color Bajaj Boxer Motorcycle was recovered from them at the point of arrest. Meanwhile, some of the victims came to identify the recovered motorcycle as the one used by the robbers to accost them and escape after robbing them. 

It would be recalled that on 25/04/2024, the Oye Divisional Police Headquarters in collaboration with some residents of Trinity Hostel Area, Oye-Ekiti, arrested a notorious motorcycle snatcher, one Bernard Shadrach, who has snatched so many motorcycles from their owners within Oye-Ekiti alongside his gang member who is currently on the run. 

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Effort is in progress for possible arrest of other fleeing suspects.

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