Suleiman Auwal, 25, of Yola, the state capital, was caught with a stolen tricycle in Adamawa State.
Yola’s only form of intracity transportation, the tricycle, also known as Keke NAPEP, is extremely popular with locals.
A news journalist assembled Tuesday that Auwal supposedly took one of the tricycles last Friday at the principal shopping complex in Jimeta, and took it to Jambutu, a local area not more than four or five kilometers away and inside a similar Jimeta region of Yola, and was utilizing it to convey travelers.
He was spotted with it, and the Adamawa State Police Order assumed responsibility for it.
He was picked up by command staff, and Auwal, who lives in the Jambutu neighborhood known as Aso Rock, admitted to the crime.
As per the Police Advertising Official, SP Suleiman Nguroje, he admitted that he carried off the tricycle, presently known to have a place with one Abubakar Usman, at the Juma’at Mosque in the Jimeta Ultra Current Market.
According to the police, Auwal, who was with other people to offer the Jumat prayers at the mosque, rushed to where tricycles were packed and stole one.
When he was arrested, he told the police that he was using it for business in and around Jambutu.
He said that during the few days he had the tricycle, he paid a local security guard N100 per day to keep it from being stolen.
Nguroje has stated that Auwal is currently in the custody of the police and that the state Commissioner of Police, Afolabi Babatola, has directed that the suspect be subjected to a thorough investigation and criminal prosecution.
