Police Nab Mastermind Of Bauchi Poly Robbery, 6 Others In Bauchi

Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command person arrested 7 suspects successful transportation with a bid of equipped robberies and assaults that precocious sparked pupil unrest wrong Bauchi metropolis.

The suspects see 20-year-old Mansur Yakubu alias Chasu; Abbas Auwal alias Abe, 20 years; Musa Bala alias Baban Nani besides 20; Aliyu Ahmadu alias Yellow, 21 years; Zurkarlaini Aliyu alias Baki and Muftahu Ibrahim alias, some 20 years aged arsenic good arsenic Dodo and Hamza Bala alias R-Kelly, 29 years old.

Police authorities disclosed that each the suspects were residents of Lushi and Birshin Fulani.

Police spokesperson of the Command, CSP Ahmed Wakil, disclosed successful a connection connected Friday, revealed that the suspects person confessed to their engagement and named 13 different accomplices including an 18-year-old Adamu Muhammad, popularly known arsenic Daddy, a nonmigratory of Birshin Fulani.

CSP Wakil said Muhammad was apprehended by the detectives attached to Yelwa Divisional Police Headquarters connected 1st September, 2025.

During Police interrogation, helium admitted to masterminding an equipped robbery astatine the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi.

According to Wakil, the gang, made up of astir 20 youths from Lushi, Birshi Gandu, Birshin Fulani, and Yelwa, stormed the students’ hostels, robbing victims of mobile phones, laptops and powerfulness banks.

“It was revealed that the mastermind benefited from the proceeds of crime, 3 mobile phones (Oppo, Samsung, and Infinix), which helium sold for N40,000 done an associate, Salmanu AKA Papus,” Wakil added.

He added that the suspects besides confessed to terrorising communities successful Yelwa, Gwallameji, and surrounding areas by breaking into homes astatine nighttime with unsafe weapons and flashlights.

“They person unlawfully entered assorted residences, wherever they seized valuables, inflicted injuries upon anyone who resisted, and occasionally fled to adjacent states to evade arrest,” CSP Wakil said.

In different improvement connected September 9, Wakil said constabulary foiled a mob onslaught connected a motorcycle thief astatine Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic, Bauchi.

The suspect, identified arsenic 25-year-old Salisu Musa of Mararraban Liman Katagum was reportedly caught with a stolen achromatic Jincheng motorcycle belonging to a student, Hussaini Musa.

“On receipt of the report, a squad of detectives from B Divisional Police Headquarters, GRA, swiftly visited the country and successfully rescued Salisu Musa ‘m’, aged 25, of Mararraban Liman Katagum, Bauchi, from the pupil mob successful possession of the stolen Jincheng motorcycle, achromatic successful colour, belonging to Hussaini Musa ‘m’, a pupil of Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic Bauchi,” connection said.

The Bauchi constabulary spokesperson further said during interrogation, the fishy confessed to the crime.

He added that probe was ongoing to research much facts regarding the stolen motorcycles wrong the institutions.

Wakil further stated that ineligible proceedings volition beryllium initiated against the suspects, aft which the suspects volition beryllium profiled and charged to tribunal for established offences.

The Commissioner of Police, Bauchi State Command, CP Sani-Omolori Aliyu has directed that the fishy beryllium transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for thorough and discreet investigation.