Operatives of the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC)
have arrested a 27-year-old man suspected to have stolen a Toyota Camry saloon red coloured car with registration number EPE 294 GT.
In a statement by the state command’s public relations officer, Babawale Afolabi, in Ilorin, on Monday, the suspect, Abubakar Aliyu, a father of two, committed the offence at one private hostel in the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete area of the Ilorin metropolis.
“On Thursday, August 19, 2021, our intelligence and investigation department were deployed to look out for the said car upon receiving the complaint about a missing car. The incident occured at a hostel in the Malete area in Ilorin
“Through an effort of the surveillance team of intelligence and investigation department, Abubakar Aliyu was arrested with the car,” the statement said.
The NSCDC spokesman, who said that the car was parked in front of the hostel, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021, around 11 p.m., added that the owner was taken aback when he could not find the car the next day where he had parked it.
“Abubakar broke through the window of one of the hostel and made away with the car key thereby succeeded in stealing the said car.
“The suspect took the car to one painter, Adewunmi Taiwo Gabriel at his shop located at Oko Erin Area, Ilorin, where the red colour was changed to black colour. This was done under eight hours with the suspect standing by the painter and took the car out of the place the same day.
“The painter, Adewunmi Taiwo, may not have conspired with the suspect but acted foolishly for painting and changing the colour of the car,” he said.
He also said that the two suspects are now in civil defence custody, adding that Abubakar had confessed to having committed the crime.
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