The Niger State Police Command has arrested a suspected motorcycle thief terrorising the Izala Mosque, Kwangila in Minna, the state capital.
The suspect, Ibrahim Yusuf, 28, of Kuta, Shiroro Local Government Area of the state, was said to have on a number of times, stolen motorcycles from the General Hospital and the Izala Mosque area.
Northern City News gathered on Sunday that Yusuf had been involved in the crime for close to three years before he was nabbed by the police following a tip-off.
Yusuf told our correspondent that his neighbours in Kuta, where he lived, were under the impression that he was a motorcycle dealer, noting that none of them suspected that the motorcycles he sold to them were stolen.
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