Police nab car snatchers in Kebbi

From Ahmed Idris, Birnin Kebbi

The Kebbi Police command has arrested two suspected car snatchers and also recovered a stolen CRV onda with registration number KJA 665BD .

The vehicle was recovered at mararaba Yauri, Kebbi state. The Police Public Relation Officer, Kabiru Bawa Rawayau disclosed this to press men at the Force’s Headquarters in Birnin Kebbi yesterday while dispaying the two suspected car snatchers; Abdulwahab Yusuf , Esther Ezembi and the recovered CRV Honda from the suspects.

The Police PPRO explained that the vehicle was snatched at Area 11 in Abuja at gun point after fuelling the vehicle at a filling station, the suspects, 3 in number set out but the police trailed them and put in additional measures to barricade them.

He further explained that the suspects outsmarted the barricades mounted by the police but however the police surveillance team at Mararaba Yauri tried to stopp them ‘’ The suspects quickly reversed the vehicle in an attempt to escape which made the police shoot their tyres, one of the suspects escaped into the bush leaving his accomplices behind, one man and a lady’’, he said.

According to the police spokesman, investigations were still in to arrest the other escapee. He announced that the Kebbi Police command under CP Benjamin Uche had declared total war against any form of criminality warning all criminals to stay off Kebbi.

Rawayau also called in the general public to report any suspicious persons within their mids and provide usefull information to the police also assuring that the police will keep the identity of their informant secret.