NIGER POLICE COMMAND ARREST A NOTORIOUS PRIVATE SOLDIER FOND OF TERRORISING RESIDENT OF MINNA
BY UTHMAN BABA- SIRAJDEEN, MINNA
Police Authority in Niger State,have arrested a serving Soldier for violently coursing grievous bodily harm to a Minna based businessman Abdulrahaman Salihu.
Private Sadiq Sani was said to have on the Eid- Fitr day came to the shop with the claim to make a purchase of a set of shirts from Abdulrahaman.
After the said transaction, it was gathered that he demanded the account details from the shop owner for him to transfer his money.
When the transfer was made,it was gathered that the Soldier sent a fake alert to him while the sales manager demanded that he should wait until the money drop to his account before taking his purchase.
At this point,the Soldier brought out his sharp knife which he used to inflict several deep cuts on the shop owner.
As a result he chopped off his arm and took to his heels and all efforts to chase him by some neighbours prove abortive as he escaped to his family house in the Limawa area of Minna.
He was traced to his house by heavily armed policemen from Central Divisional Police command where he engaged the police for a free for all fight before he was overpowered and arrested .
It was further gathered that the said private Soldier belongs also to a member of some miscreants terrorising residents of Minna, one of his uncle a retired Brigadier General in the Army enlisted him in the Army about three years ago.
Captain U.S Ibrahim from the Military police (MP) of the 313 Brigade headquarters of Minna Cantonment has been detailed to take over full scale Investigation in to the case by the leadership of niger state police command with a view to evacuating him to the defence headquarters in Abuja for further action.
” We are taken him to the defence headquarters to formally arraign him to face court martial for his dismissal after which will bring him to the police for his Prosecution in court” he said.
It was further gathered that the Private Soldier was known to be absconding from his station somewhere in Bayelsal state without any permission to come down to Minna to wreak havoc on residents before escaping back
During his arrest he was said to have been in possession of over twenty five assorted phones suspected to have been disposesed from Innocent residents of Minna.
However, Wasiu Abiodun SP, the Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), refused to pick several calls put to him on his phone number 08032233854. When this reporter reached out to him Also an SMS forwarded to him has not been responded to by the PPRO.
