By Gbenga Ojikutu
Following a new wave of motorcycle thefts in parts of the State, the Police in Ekiti State have arrested six men for snatching motorbikes from riders within the Ikere/Ado-Ekiti and Igede-Ekiti axis of the state.
The suspects are Adebayo Bashiru, Oluyemi Kunle, Gabriel Isaac, Abubakar Abdullahi, Macon Andrew, and Peter Ninfa.
The state Commissioner of Police, Adeniran Akinwale, in a statement by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, on Thursday, said, “The suspects were arrested by the Command’s Rapid Response Squad following a tip-off.”
He said, “The suspects, during interrogation, confessed that they had snatched so many motorcycles from their owners within Ikere/Ado/Igede-Ekiti Axis and further mentioned one Lawali Ibrahim and Kabiru Abdullahi as their accomplices who usually buy the motorcycles from them after snatching.”
The police boss, who said efforts would be intensified to arrest all others connected with snatching motorbikes, said that the suspects would be charged in court upon conclusion of investigations.
There has been incessant snatching of motorcycles in Ado Ekiti and some parts of the state of recent. Consequently, the police commissioner placed residents motorbike owners, and riders on the alert while he ordered his men to intensify efforts to ensure the arrest of the culprits.
Recall on April 25, the Oye Divisional Police Headquarters in collaboration with some residents of Trinity Hostel Area, Oye-Ekiti, arrested a suspected motorcycle snatcher, Bernard Shadrach
