recovered and returned N15million which was
stolen from an unidentified man by a 5-man
armed robbery gang at the Ilela border market in
Ilela LGA of Sokoto state on June 1st.
Parading the suspects with the money recovered
at the Sokoto state Police command
headquaters, DCP Douglas Agbonleni who
spoke on behalf of the Sokoto State
Commissioner of Police, Gambo Lawal, gave an
insight on how the robbers were able to dislodge
their victim of the money and how they were
subsequently caught. Continue...
"The robbery operation was successful as
they were able to dispossess their target of
over N15 million cash at the Ilela border
market, after firing into the air to scare
people. We received the information at
about 6pm on June 1 and instantly went
on stop-and-search operation and our
men at Rabbah local government found a
black colour Volkswagen Golf car with
registration number Jigawa AG 569 HJA
along the forest route and apprehended
three of the criminals while the other two
escaped" he said.
The three robbers arrested were identified
as Joseph Ohakin, ThankGod Sunday,
Emmanuel Ugo (aka Ifeanyi). Apart from the
money, other items recovered from them were
weapons including locally made and foreign
assorted rifles neatly concealed in the seats of
the vehicle.
The Police said after they arrested the armed
robbers in the bush, the robbers offered to give
them the stolen N15million on the condition that
they let them go, but the police men declined
the offer. The police then launched a search for
the remaining two robbers who escaped. A
mobile phone which they used in
communicating was used to track down the
other two criminals.
"When the first three were arrested, we
searched the vehicle and recovered the
money, we discovered a GSM telephone
and upon diligent investigation, we traced
that phone to Kano and our detectives
proceeded to Kano where we were able to
trace the owner of that phone who was a
member of the robbery gang
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