Police arrest six for armed robbery in Bauchi

 The police in Bauchi State have arrested a suspect who allegedly removed the hand of a 25-year old man and stabbed him on the head.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ahmed Wakil, in a statement on Friday, said the suspect had been on the command’s wanted list for two years over thuggery and causing grievous harm. He said the suspect committed the crime with two others still at large.

He noted that his luck ran out when a police patrol team raided a black spot at a suburb of Bauchi metropolis and arrested him.

The statement read, “On Saturday, July 22, 2023 at about 6.30pm, police operatives attached to ‘C’ Divisional  Headquarters, while on a visibility policing patrol, identified and raided a black spot located at Sabon Layi, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis which led to the arrest of one Muhammad Abdullahi, aka Luwawu, male, of the same address.

“He has been on the police watch list since 2021 for alleged criminal conspiracy, thuggery, causing grievous hurt and attempting to commit an offence to wit culpable homicide.

“Sometime in 2021, the suspect criminally conspired with Sani Danfada, male, Manu Maidawa and two others, now at large, all of the same address, while armed with machetes and other deadly weapons attacked and stabbed one Mubarak Abdullahi, male (25) of Unguwan Sarakuna area on his head and cut off his left hand from the Articulatio radiocarpalis.”