Two Police Officers Arrested For Stealing Colleague’s Car

Two police officers, Sunday Ibrahim
and Zakari Abdulahi, have been
dragged to the Senior Magistrates’
Court in Karu, the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja, for allegedly
conniving with one Saidu Abdul to
steal a car belonging to a fellow
police officer,John Yiltie, at the City
Gate Police Barracks, Abuja.
The owner of the car, Yiltie, said he
had parked the vehicle, an Honda
Academy, at the premises of the
African Church in Durumi, a suburb
of the city on 8 June, 2014, only to
discover it had been stolen when he
returned to pick it.
He narrated that he promptly
reported the matter to Garki Police
Station from where the matter was
later transferred to the State Criminal
Investigation Department, FCT
Command, for further action.
The bubble, however, bust on the
suspects when the police commenced
investigation into the matter. The first
set of suspects who were arrested
include Luke Musa, Niyi Adedeji and
Peter Aku.
They were traced through a
BlackBerry chat and other phone
conversations. In the course of
investigation, Sunday Ibrahim, a
police officer who was recently
transferred from Kaduna Command to
FCT Command, was named as an
accomplice.
While being interrogated by
operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad, (SARS) in Abuja, the
policeman allegedly confessed that he
did not steal the car but merely
escorted the prime suspect, Saidu
Ibrahim, with the car to Kaduna. At
Kaduna, he continued, the car was
sold for N250,000 as against the
original price of N1.3 million.
When John Yiltie gave witness in
court, the prime suspect changed his
initial plea of not guilty and pleaded
guilty to the charge. He pleaded for
mercy and forgiveness. The
Magistrate, Hadiza Rabiu Shagari, in
the light of the prime suspect’s plea,
summarily tried and convicted him of
the offence. She sentenced him to one
month imprisonment or a fine of
N3,000.
Meanwhile, the stolen car has been
recovered and returned to the owner
on bond while the two police officers
were remanded in prison custody till
the next adjourned date.