By Leshi Adebayo
A team of policemen from Katsina Police Command, patrolling along Katsina-Jibia road have nabbed three women for allegedly hiding petrol in their bags to sell to bandits in the forest.
The Police Spokesperson in Katsina, SP. Isah Gambo, paraded the suspects at the State Police headquarters on Thursday.
The suspects, who are residents of the Malali quarters, Katsina, confessed to committing the offence in contravention of the executive order and other extant laws of the federation.
According to the video showing the suspects, Gambo said, “These women that you are seeing here were arrested along Jibia-Katsina road with these bags pretending to be normal travellers going to Magama in Jibia, a border town with Niger Republic.
“What they do is engaging in smuggling of petrol to bandits in Jibia forest but nemesis caught up with them and they were arrested with these exhibits.
“These exhibits you are seeing are not just travelling bags but they are loaded with petrol meant to be taken to the forest for the bandits,” he continued.
“The suspects are Umma Bello, 45 years of Malali Quarters here in Katsina metropolis, Nusaiba Muhammad, 16 years and Dija Umar 50 years all of the same address.
“It may interest you to know that the suspects, while confessing to have committed the offence, also revealed that many of them in the area are involved in the business.”
“What they do is to engage the services of ‘okada’, motorcycle riders to buy the fuel for them in their motorcycle tanks from filling stations and then take it back to Malali quarters for them where they siphon the fuel from the motorcycle tanks and then arrange them into bags like these to avoid the eagle eyes of the security agencies while taking it to the forest to sell to bandits,” he added.
See video below:
Leshi Adebayo
