- …9 Cars, fake $300,000 notes recovered
By Stanley Onyekwere
The FCT Police Command have revealed arrest of three suspects, who allegedly specialised in car snatching and robbery in the nation’s capital, Abuja and its environs.
Parading the suspects yesterday, the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Ben Igweh, said the operatives of the FCT Police Command on February 16, 2024 at about 3:00 pm and acting on credible intelligence, nabbed the three notorious and wanted car snatchers namely;
David Junior Godwin, male of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State (gang leader); Paul Taju, male of Gwagwalada, Abuja and Ali Shitu, male of Port-Harcourt, River State.
Igwe said, “the suspects are members of a four-man gang who specialises in inter-state car theft and snatching.
“They are responsible for series of car snatching and the disappearance of several hilux vehicles reportedly stolen in FCT and its environs.
He added that on February 23, 2024 at about 2:15 pm, also acting on credible intelligence, police operatives of the command from anti-fraud unit arrested two suspects namely; Abdullahi Yahaya 35, male of Nasarawa State and Gold Ebere 53, male of Jabi, Abuja, at Tin Can Resort Garden in Jabi, Abuja in possession of 36 bundles of fake hundred (100) US dollar($) notes, totalling about $300,000 fake dollars
According to him, the suspects confessed to be members of an eight-man gang who specialised in inter-state sale of fake dollar notes and have sold several of the fake notes to unsuspecting residents of FCT before they ran out of luck and were apprehended.
Furthermore, the CP said the suspects are currently assisting the Police to apprehend other suspected gang members on the run.
