Police sergeant, three others arrested for robbing Jigawa deputy governor

The sergeant is said to have perpetuated the act with three other people.

The public relations officer of the Command, SP Magaji Majiya, disclosed this while parading the suspects before newsmen in Kano on Tuesday.

According to a NAN report, the suspects are Sani Danjuma, a dismissed police sergeant of the Nigeria Police attached to Jigawa police Command, Nura Ahmed, Abdullahi Ahmed and Abubakar Uzairu.

Speaking on the development, Majiya stated that the state’s SARS received information on 18th March about the robbery and subsequently launched an investigation.

He says: “On March 18, at about 9.30 p.m an information was received from a good samaritan at Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) Kano that there was robbery”.

“Danjuma, the police sergeant who was a guard in the residence of the deputy governor of Jigawa State’s guest house while in service and the three other suspects criminally conspired and carried out the robbery operation,” he said.

The police spokesperson said the suspects armed themselves with dangerous weapons and attacked the Policemen on guard duty at the guest house.

Majiya also revealed the items recovered from the suspects, which include AK47 rifle, loaded with 30 rounds of live ammunition, a BMW motor vehicle worth N11 million, one cutlass, knives and an unspecified amount of money.

He said that the suspects had confessed to the roles each of them played in the robbery attack

Majiya said that the suspects would be charged to court for prosecution at the conclusion of the investigation.

Source: Daily Post