MAN IN POLICE NET FOR STEALING KEKE NAPEP, SAYS "IT WAS AN ACT OF GOD"

A 21 year old Muhammed Umar, has been apprehended by the men of the Adamawa State Police Command for stealing a Keke NAPEP. NEWS PLATFORM can report.

The suspect, an indigene of Shuwari, old Maiduguri in Borno State, resides at Bayan Tike, Kasuwan Kuturu in Mubi, Adamawa state where he allegedly perpetrated the crime.

Muhammed, had voluntarily confessed to the alleged crime while being interrogated by the spokesman of the Police Command, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, on Thursday.

He narrated that he had made away with the tricycle after it was leased to him by a friend in Mubi last week, and was eventually arrested at Mararaba Mubi following a tip off.

 

The tricyclist said that he had decieved his friend by telling him that a woman had requested him to convey her to a particular place in Mubi, and that she had promised to pay the sum of N2, 000.

He assured him that he will use the tricycle for 30 minutes only, and that on his return, he will give him N1, 500, and use the remaining N500 to buy food.

He said that he collected the tricycle and disappeared with it after he had deceived his friend, saying that he had committed the act due his living condition coupled with pressure from his poor parents.

Muhammed Umar, attributed it to an act of God, insisting that it was destined to happen, and that it must surely come to pass, and prayed God to forgive him.

However, he regretted his action and pleaded for mercy, saying it was his first time engaging in this kind of criminal act.

Meanwhile, the spokesman of the Command, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, has appealed to the owner of the tricycle to report at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Command with the particulars of the tricycle for claim.

SP Nguroje, assured that the suspect will be charged to court for prosecution upon completion of investigation.