Police arrest varsity student with eight cars in Borno

TO prevent incessant car snatching and other criminal activities in Borno State, the Police Commissioner, Clement Adoda, has urged residents to be “security -conscious” by installing anti-theft security devices in their vehicles and report any suspicious movements in their communities to the police for appropriate action in fighting crimes.

The alarm was raised Tuesday in Maiduguri, while parading a suspect, Mari Paul Dirkwa, who stole eight cars in Maiduguri metropolis this year, at the Borno Police Command headquarters.

He said the suspect specialized in theft of motor vehicles, instead of completing his university education at the Department of Business Education of University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), before a team of special anti robbery squad on patrol on Bama Road arrested the suspect while attempting to steal a Honda Civic car (MKA 92 AK-Kaduna) belonging to Ummi Mari Umar of the varsity.

His words: “This varsity student suspect was arrested on September 28, 2014 by a team of special anti-robbery on patrol along Bama Road Maiduguri, following a tip-off while attempting to steal one green

Honda Civic with Reg. No. MKA 92 AH (Kaduna).

“On interrogation, this suspect confessed to have previously stolen six assorted motor vehicles within Maiduguri Metropolis and disposed off same at different locations within the state. We are making all possible efforts to recover the vehicles while the suspect would be charged to court of law at the completion of investigation.

The Command would, therefore, not relent in this fight in checking the activities of such criminally minded individuals and would stop at nothing in arresting and prosecuting offenders.

“By the end of this month, we will get these stolen cars, including the identifications of individuals or groups of people that bought the snatched or stolen cars in the state.”

The police chief attributed the suspect’s resort to car-snatching to lack of home training, and parental upbringing, before he was admitted into the varsity for his education.

“If Mari was properly brought up by his parents, his father would not have allowed his son to steal cars with master keys and use ofintelligence in stealing over half a dozen cars,” said Adoda.

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