Police in Kano Saturday July 31 said the Command, during separate operations recently, recovered items worth almost one hundred million naira. The command’s spokesperson, CSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa who made the disclosure said detectives from the Sharada Police Division during one operation recovered 160 suspected stolen solar inverters valued at N59.2m, adding that the recovery followed credible intelligence that a suspect was allegedly offering large quantities of solar inverters for sale at unusually low prices. He identified the suspect as 43-year-old Abdullahi Isah, adding that detectives arrested him before searching an uncompleted building at Haye Quarters along Western Bypass in Kano and recovered the inverters. “The exhibits are reasonably suspected to have been stolen. Investigation is ongoing to identify their source and other possible accomplices,” Kiyawa said. The police appealed to members of the public who own, or may have lost, solar inverters matching the description to report to the Sharada Police Division for identification and possible collection of the items. In another operation, officers of the Special Intervention Squad arrested three suspects for the theft of six fuel dispensing machines valued at N10.2 million from Jajire Filling Station in Aku Village, Gaya Local Government Area. According to the police, armed robbers attacked the filling station in the early hours of July 25, overpowered the security guards, tied them up and locked them inside a security room before carting away the machines. Kiyawa said investigations led to the arrest of the suspects, who allegedly confessed to buying the stolen machines from one Usman Ibrahim of Kaduna State, who remains at large. He said efforts are on to apprehend the suspect and recover the stolen dispensing machines. State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Adamu Bakori, said the Command would sustain its offensive against criminal networks across the state and urged residents to avoid buying goods sold at suspiciously low prices while advising people to promptly report suspicious activities to the nearest police station.

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Current date: 14 August 2026