Ekiti State police apprehend six individuals for motorcycle thefts in the Ikere/Ado-Ekiti and Igede-Ekiti regions. The arrested suspects include Adebayo Bashiru, Oluyemi Kunle, Gabriel Isaac, Abubakar Abdullahi, Macon Andrew, and Peter Ninfa.
The state Commissioner of Police, Adeniran Akinwale, in a statement by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, disclosed this on Thursday, said, “The suspects were arrested by the Command’s Rapid Response Squad following a tip-off.”
He said, “The suspects, during interrogation, confessed that they had 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.”
The police boss, who said efforts would be intensified to arrest all others connected with snatching motorbikes, said that the suspects would be charged in court upon conclusion of investigations.
There has been incessant snatching of motorcycles in Ado Ekiti and some parts of the state of recent. Consequently, the police commissioner placed residents motorbike owners, and riders on the alert while he ordered his men to intensify efforts to ensure the arrest of the culprits.
Recall on April 25, the Oye Divisional Police Headquarters in collaboration with some residents of Trinity Hostel Area, Oye-Ekiti, arrested a suspected motorcycle snatcher, Bernard Shadrach.
