The Bauchi State Police Command has foiled an armed robbery attempt along the Kajala-Kere Road and recovered two stolen motorcycles after suspected hoodlums fled the scene.
The command also arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly shot after pulling the trigger of a loaded Dane gun in Gamawa Local Government Area of the state.
The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Nafiu Habib, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday.
Habib said the robbery incident occurred on Saturday at about 9:45pm when hoodlums armed with cutlasses and sticks reportedly blocked the Kajala-Kere Road and dispossessed four residents of Kere village of their belongings.
He said the victims, identified as Mr Ado and three other men, were dispossessed of two Bajaj motorcycles, two Android phones and a power bank.
“On 5th September, 2026 at about 2145hrs, a report received from the Officer-in-Charge, Kajala Police Outstation, on the outskirts of Burra, indicated that yet-to-be-identified hoodlums armed with cutlasses and sticks blocked the Kajala-Kere road and dispossessed one Mr Ado and three others, all male of Kere village, of two Bajaj motorcycles, two Android phones and a power bank,” Habib said.
According to him, a combined team of police officers from the Burra Division and local vigilantes was immediately mobilised to the scene following the report.
The suspects reportedly fled after sighting the security team, abandoning the stolen motorcycles.
“The hoodlums, on sighting the team, abandoned the stolen motorcycles, aborted their mission and fled to an unknown destination,” the PPRO stated.
He added that the operatives recovered the motorcycles and searched the surrounding bushes in an attempt to apprehend the fleeing suspects and recover the remaining stolen items.
The command said efforts were ongoing to identify and arrest the suspects involved in the robbery.
