Bauchi: Police arrest 11-man gang specialised in stealing generators

<p>The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a gang of suspected thieves who specialize in stealing industrial power generators in the Azare town of the Katagum Local Government Area of the State.</p>, <p>Addressing journalists in Azare on Tuesday, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Auwal Musa Muhammad, said the gang confessed to having carried out a series of operations in the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and Cold Room close to the NTA station within the town.</p>, <p>He identified the suspects as Adamu Ibrahim ‘m’ 30 of Zigau in Shira Local Government Area, Ibrahim Adamu ‘m’ aged 22 of Azare, Musa Aliyu alias Manager ‘m’ 48 of Gwoza, Borno State, Umar ‘m’ of Azare, Alh Sani ‘m’ of Kano State.</p>, <p>Others are Sani Adamu ‘m’ 22 of Gadau, Itas-Gadau LGA; Rilwanu Saidu ‘m’ of Kano State; Victor Moses ‘m’ aged 29 of Hotoro via Fagge LGA, Kano State; Isaac Success ‘m’ 35 of Sabon Gari, Kano State; Adamu Ahmad ‘m’ Azare town, Katagum LGA; and Destiny Ihekwoabah ‘m’ aged 35 of Dutsen Bukuma, FCT Abuja; the receiver of some of the stolen generators.</p>, <p>Exhibits recovered from them included seven Mikano generators.</p>, <p>According to the CP, “During interrogation, the said Adamu Ibrahim stated that he was introduced to the gang through one Umar Abdullahi of Azare town, who is a friend of Alh. Sani ‘m’ of Kano State.</p>, <p>“The suspect participated in two operations carried out within Azare town and benefitted sixty thousand naira (60,000) from the first operation and fifty thousand naira (N50,000) as his share of the proceeds of the crime in the second operation from the gang leader “Alh. Sani” of Kano State.”</p>, <p>“The said Ibrahim Adamu corroborated the statement mentioned above. That he benefitted thirty thousand naira (30,000) from the proceeds of the crime. The third suspect Musa Aliyu, popularly known as Manager, who was residing in Mopol base Dutse, Jigawa State, stated that this was his first operation with the group along Azare-Giade road in an MTN mast with a J5 bus where they