Safiu Kehinde
Kano State Police Command has arrested 35 year-old notorious armed robbery suspect, Hassan Iliya, while recovering a sum of 4.9 million naira allegedly stolen by the suspect.
The command made this known in a statement issued on their official X handle earlier today.
According to the law enforcement agency, the Police had, on Monday, responded to a distress call of a robbery attack at Yandadi village, Kunchi.
Members of the force were deployed to the scene and eventually saw to the arrest of the suspect.
“On 05/08/2024 at about 02:00am, a resident of Yandadi Village, Kunchi LGA, Kano State reported that armed robbers stormed his residence, attacked him, and robbed him of Fifteen Million Naira (N15,000,000.00).
*Despite the management of the ongoing Nationwide Protest, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Salman Dogo Garba, directed a team of detectives to conduct intelligence-led patrols to arrest the culprits and recover their operational weapons.
“On the same date at about 06:00am, the team arrested the principal suspect, Hassan Iliya, 35 years old, of Alhazawa Village, Musawa LGA, Katsina State, while attempting to escape on a motorcycle.
“A spot search revealed a sack containing two AK-47 Rifles with 47 rounds of live ammunition and cash, totaling four million, nine hundred, and eighty-six thousand naira (N4,986,000.00). Investigation is ongoing.” The Police disclosed.