The Kano State Police Command has arrested a thief who broke into four shops at City Centre Plaza, Farm Centre GSM Market in Kano metropolis and carted away various items including 222 phones, the sum of N350,000, power banks, among others.
The thief, Abba Abubakar, aged 27 years, was arrested after complaints lodged by the owners of the shops.
It was gathered that on November 7, one Mohammed Rabo, the Chief Security Officer of City Centre Plaza, reported at Farm Centre Division that on the same date around 4:00 a.m., four shops were discovered broken into at the plaza.
Upon receipt of the report, the Divisional Police Officer, Farm Centre Division, mobilised detectives to the scene in collaboration with the market security officers.
On getting to the market, Abubakar was sighted loitering around the plaza with a saw and a screwdriver in his possession and after questioning, he could not give a satisfactory account of what he was doing there. He was promptly arrested and brought to the station.
During his interrogation, he was said to have confessed that he broke into the four shops and carted away various items and cash.
Among the items said to have been stolen by him inside the shops were one laptop, one Samsung tablet, 95 pieces of keypad phones, 127 pieces of Android phones, one sound system, 17 used Android screens, 29 pieces of power banks,130 varieties of phone accessories, cash sum of N350,000, among others.
All the stolen items as well as the money were said to have been recovered from him.
He has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for more interrogation and he is expected to be charged to court at the conclusion of the investigation.
