Police Recover Vehicles Stolen In Kano

Police in Kano State yesterday said they recovered four stolen vehicles and arrested four suspected members of a car theft syndicate.

Two of the recovered vehicles were stolen from Abuja and Jigawa State.

Premium Times quoted the police spokesman in the state, Haruna Kiyawa, as announcing this in a statement released in Kano early yesterday.

He said the police anti-car theft unit recorded several successes over the past week.

He said on March 7, officers intercepted a dark blue Hyundai Elantra at the Naibawa Flyover Bridge in Kano.

They named the occupants as Ibrahim Muhd (29, of Minna) and Ahmed Sani (32, of Abuja), adding that the vehicle had been reported stolen in Abuja, and the suspects have since confessed to the crime.

On March 9, the unit arrested 30-year-old Abdulkarim Mamman of Kaduna at the Kwanar Dawaki checkpoint along the Kano-Zaria Expressway.

The suspect was found in possession of an ash-coloured Honda Civic, which he admitted to having stolen from the Karkasara Quarters in Kano.

One Yusuf Ali, 28, of Kaduna State, was arrested in connection with a silver Toyota Corolla stolen from Dutse, Jigawa State. Also, a white Nissan Sunny was recovered after being stolen from a parking lot within the Kano metropolis.