Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Osun State Command has apprehended a suspected serial motorcycle snatcher, Wahab Saburi, after three years of operating in the state.
The 27-year-old suspect, who is from Obada Compound Ede, Osun State, was arrested on May 11, 2024, at Oke-Ola Area, Ede, by NSCDC personnel in the state.
According to a statement issued on Wednesday by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Kehinde Adeleke, Saburi confessed that he started stealing motorcycle about three years ago, adding that on the day he was arrested, he stole a motorcycle parked in front of an apartment at Oke-Ola, Ede.
Saburi was reported to have explained how he used a particular key to unlock people’s motorcycles before riding them away.
Adeleke said, “Discreet investigation revealed that he had four stolen motorcycles in his room which he allegedly stole at Agip area, Ayo–Omoba, Obada, Ede, Osun State.
According to the suspect, he sells the stolen items to his buyers at the rate of N40,000.00
The suspect was said to have further confessed that he has someone in a popular market in Ede, who prepares sales agreement papers for him, which he, thereafter, gives to whoever buys the stolen motorcycles from him.
“Commandant Adaralewa said the suspect was apprehended by officers of NSCDC and investigation revealed that whenever he steals motorcycle, he keeps it in his room at Obada Street Agate, Ede, Osun State.
“The State Commandant assures members of the public that all accomplices to the crime would be made to face the full wrath of the law in due course. The corps shall continue to smoke out criminally minded people out of the state,” Adeleke stated.