Kano Police Command Declares Three Notorious Thugs wanted, promised reward of 100,000
By Abdullahi Jalalalluden
The Kano state Police Commissioner Muhammad Husain Gumel has declared three notorious thugs wanted promising anyone that brings any of them a reward of N100,000 each in seven days from Wednesday 3rd of August 2023.
The Commissioner made the declaration while delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of a friendly football match between the Police Command and the repentant youths held at Sani Abacha Staduim in Kano .
The Police Commissioner noted that the command declared them wanted after they refused to cooperate and come out for dialogue with the police even as 99 thugs showed up when the Police Command only invited 30.
He said the three notorious thugs include Barakata of Dorayi Quarters, Hantar Daba and Chile Mai Doki of Tudun Fulani Quarters, saying they have proved storbon and refused to down their weapons with the police and repent.
CP Gumel maintained that the football match organized by the Police Command and YOSPIS is for the purpose of promoting peace and welcoming back youths who have strayed into delinquencies.
“We invited the 30 of them to the Command but to our utmost surprise 99 of them turned up and accepted to shun the bad deeds and also submitted their weapons.
“. I hereby declare them wanted. In spirit of community policing, whosoever brings any of them will be given N100,000. This money will come from my pocket.”
“If the communities bring these wanted thugs in spirit of community policing, they will take home N300,000 from me” the CP declares.
Delivering her address the Executive Director of Youth Society for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Social Vices (YOSPIS), Zainab Ahmad said that the football match is aimed at promoting peaceful coexistence in the state by embracing the delinquent youths and showing them that they are still welcome back to their communities.
Earlier, in his goodwill message the Kano Director General, Special Duty AVM Ibrahim Umar, who represented the Kano state Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, expressed gratitude with the effort by the police to free the state of vices by the youths while also commending YOSPIS for organizing the friendly.
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