Police raid yields car, bikes in Wuse
The police on
Wednesday night
raided a house in Bissau Street in Wuse Zone 6, in Abuja, claiming that they acted on a tip-off that suspected hoodlums use the house as a base.
About eight persons were arrested and detained at Wuse Police Station.
Abuja Trust gathered that the policeman arrived the house, an uncompleted building in the early hours of Wednesday (2: 15am) and barked on the security man to open the gate.
An eyewitness told Abuja Trust that the policemen climbed the gate and started beating the security guard when he told them that he was about to open the gate.”
Abuja Trust also learnt that when the policemen asked the security guard who he was staying with in the house, he responded that he was with two of his younger brothers.
Another eyewitness, one Mallam Aliyu who is also residing in the same house and sells recharge cards for a living alleged that the police-men saw one Juli sleeping in a car in the house and threatened to kill him if he did not come out of the car.
Aliyu further said that when the policemen could not gain entrance into the main house, they forced them-selves into the house through an air-condition hole on the wall to arrest two people, one Mohammed and one Aminu.
Mallam Aliyu also said that the police kept beating the security guard even after inflicting on him injuries and threatening that they will kill him for not divulging the number of people in the house.
Abuja Trust gathered that a car and two motorcycles were confiscated by the policemen and eight persons arrested and detained at the Wuse Police Station in Zone 3.
Abuja Trust however learnt from another source that one Engineer Emma working with one of the federal parastatals in Abuja is the tenant in the house.
When our correspondent asked about his whereabouts the security guard said that he had travelled.
It was also gathered that the police demanded N3000 bail before releasing seven of the detainees with exception of one Aminu who could not pay the said amount.
Also revealed was the fact that the operation was led by an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) from force CID in command head-quarters, Abuja.
A police source that confirmed the incident said that the suspected hoodlums get into the house by scaling the fence as they have locked the gate from the outside.
He said the impounded car was still in the station because nobody came with genuine papers to claim it.
One source also revealed that the hoodlums earlier claimed that the car owner was staying in Wuse (old) Market which on investigation by police proved to be wrong.
The particulars of the two confiscated motorcycles, according to the suspects were in Zamfara State.
Efforts to get the comment of the command’s PPRO proved abortive.
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