The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested two cattle rustlers and recovered 83 cows from them on their way with the Cows to the Cameroon Republic.
Those arrested are Njidda Ardo 32 years, a resident of Rumirgo Village, Askira Uba, LGA, Borno State, and Julde Ali 30 years a resident of Rumirgo Village, Askira Uba LGA, Borno state.
A statement by the Command’s spokesman DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje said the discreet investigation into the matter has commenced and assured that the suspects will be prosecuted accordingly.
The statement read “On the 2/6/2021 the Command’s operatives attached to Gombi Division, following information from a reliable source that some people were sighted in a certain forest across the border with heads of cattle suspected to have stolen.”
“The Command immediately deployed its operatives attached to Gombi Division and some Hunters to the area as a result.”
“Investigation led to the recovery of 83 Cows. The suspects while interrogation confessed to have stolen the Cows somewhere in Borno State.”
“On the strength of that, the Commissioner of Police ALIYU ADAMU ALHAJI, commended the Divisional police officer Gombi and his men for making it difficult for such criminals escape arrest, equally calls on members of the general public particularly whose Cows were stolen to report to Gombi Divisional police headquarters with all proofs to claim them.”
Alhaji then calls on members of the public to continue giving credible information regarding any person of suspicious character around their neighborhood to the police.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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