Police Arrest Three Suspects Over Theft, Stolen Properties

The Yobe State Police Command has arrested three suspects in connection with criminal conspiracy, theft, and receiving stolen property involving farm equipment in the Garin Alkali area of Bursari Local Government Area.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the command, ASP Yusuf Adamu-Aliyu, in a statement, revealed the suspects were arrested on October 21, 2026.

“On 21st October 2026, the Garin Alkali Divisional Police Headquarters received a distress call reporting that one Musa Mohammed ‘M’ 40yrs of Garin Alkali town, had been apprehended by a group of individuals in a farm area near Tarbutu Village over an alleged theft of farm equipment”

“Upon receipt of the report, detectives from the Division were immediately mobilised to the scene, where they took the suspect into custody for investigation,” the statement reads in part.

ASP Aliyu further revealed that, after preliminary interrogation, the suspect confessed to conspiring with one Mohammed Baki ‘M’ of Gashua, and one Haruna Wakil Sano, A.K.A Kogi ‘M’ 27yrs ‘M’ to steal farm equipment from farms in the Duhuwu Nima farm area; both suspects were initially at large.

The suspect further disclosed that the stolen items had been sold to one Adamu Abubakar ‘M’ of Gashua Local Government Area.

The detectives, acting on this information, traced and arrested the receiver. A search conducted at his residence led to the recovery of the following items reasonably suspected to have been stolen: two water pump generators, discharge and suction hoses, two gas cylinders and ten solar panels.

The Commissioner of Police, Yobe State Command, CP Usman Kanfani Jibrin, commended the officers involved for their efforts in recovering the stolen property and apprehending the suspects.

He urged farmers and other members of the public to remain vigilant and promptly report suspicious activities to the nearest Police formation.