{"id":400821,"date":"2011-04-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/26\/gwagwalada-police-nab-car-snatching-syndicate\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T23:00:00","slug":"gwagwalada-police-nab-car-snatching-syndicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/26\/gwagwalada-police-nab-car-snatching-syndicate\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwagwalada police nab car snatching syndicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"97\">THREE members of a car snatching syndicate have been arrested by the police in Gwagwalada for allegedly being in possession of a Toyota Hilux van belonging to Revolution Exclusive Nigeria Limited, Benin City, Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged syndicate\u2019s leader, Alhaji Isah Mustapha ( 51), his gate man and an electrician suspected to be hired to disconnect car tracking devices in vehicles, were arrested in Mustapha`s compound at Phase 1, Gwagwalada.<\/p>\n<p>Mustapha, who claimed to be a level 16 officer at NNPC Suleja, said he received N500,000 from one Bashiru to keep vehicles in his compound and does not belong to any car snatching business in the area.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Hilux van is the third vehicle kept under his custody by Bashiru, adding that a man normally comes from Niger Republic to carry the vehicles there under armed escort of mobile policemen.<\/p>\n<p>When the police conducted a search at the suspect\u2019s Gwagwalada residence, five other exotic cars were recovered, which he said are his personal cars.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Gwagwalada Divisional Police Officer, Chief Superintendent Charles Mozie confirmed the arrest, and said he sent policemen to the suspect\u2019s compound, following information received from a car tracking company.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the policemen swung into immediate action and arrested the syndicate members as they tried to escape after sighting the police.<\/p>\n<p>He said investigation into the matter would continue until the whereabouts of Bashiru, the chief suspect, is ascertained.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, driver of the Hilux van, Goodluck, said the van was snatched from him at gun point at Gwagwalada, after his assailants threatened to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking, Revolution Exclusive Nigeria Limited\u2019s Managing Director, Mr Oje Okosun, confirmed that all the company\u2019s vehicles are tracked for security purposes.<\/p>\n<p>He said as soon as he could not hear from the driver, he checked the tracking \u2018GPRS Machine\u2019 and discovered that the car was driving above 160 kilometres, which was very unusual, before they discovered the car inside the suspect\u2019s house at Gwagwalada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dailytrust.dailytrust.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=17945:gwagwalada-police-nab-car-snatching-syndicate&amp;catid=4:city-news&amp;Itemid=4\" title=\"Gwagwalada police nab car snatching syndicate\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gwagwalada police nab car snatching syndicate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> THREE members of a car snatching syndicate have been arrested by the police in Gwagwalada for allegedly being in possession of a Toyota Hilux van belonging to Revolution Exclusive Nigeria Limited, Benin City, Edo State. The alleged syndicate\u2019s leader, Alhaji Isah Mustapha ( 51), his gate man and an electrician suspected to be hired to disconnect car tracking devices in vehicles, were arrested in Mustapha`s compound at Phase 1, Gwagwalada. Mustapha, who claimed to be a level 16 officer at NNPC Suleja, said he received N500,000 from one Bashiru to keep vehicles in his compound and does not belong to any car snatching business in the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":400822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gwagwalada police nab car snatching syndicate - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/26\/gwagwalada-police-nab-car-snatching-syndicate\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gwagwalada police nab car snatching syndicate - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"THREE members of a car snatching syndicate have been arrested by the police in Gwagwalada for allegedly being in possession of a Toyota Hilux van belonging to Revolution Exclusive Nigeria Limited, Benin City, Edo State. 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