The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, at the Yankaba Eastern Bypass Roundabout in Kano have reportedly arrested a suspected Juma’at mosque vandal.
The spokesperson of the NSCDC Kano State Command, Ibrahim Abdullahi, confirmed the arrest in a statement released on Monday.
According to him, the suspect, Murtala Aliyu Muhd, 35, a resident of Dawakin Dakata quarters in Nassarawa Local Government Area, Kano, was apprehended late at night after gaining entry into the Dakata Juma’at mosque through its window.
“The suspect successfully stole and made away with one of the mosque’s solar energy batteries, which supplies electricity to the worship centre.
“The following day, while attempting to sell the battery at the market, he was intercepted and arrested by personnel of the Corps on security duty at a checkpoint.
“He failed to provide a satisfactory explanation of where he obtained the battery or was taking it,” the statement said.
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It further disclosed that the same suspect had recently been accused of stealing over 300,000 Naira from the mosque, an allegation he confessed to.
In the same vein, another suspected vandal, 19-year-old Musbahu Sani from Darmanawa quarters in Tarauni Local Government Area, was also apprehended.
Sani was reportedly arrested in possession of large armoured cables believed to have been stolen during a vandalism incident.
The statement noted that the suspect, upon interrogation, confessed to removing the wires from an electricity installation (transformer) at Darmanawa quarters.
“He was taking the cables to market when he was captured by civil defence personnel along Court Road, Gyadi-Gyadi, Kano State,” the statement revealed.
It added that following the investigation, both suspects would be charged in court for appropriate prosecution.
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