Sokoto govt donates N.5m to police
From ABBA LAWAN KURMAWA

GOVERNOR, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa of Sokoto state has donated the sum of N500, 000 to the police detectives who are investigating the case of missing 16 electrical transformers in the state.
The state police commissioner Alhaji Sa’idu Daya disclosed this when he paraded three suspects in connection with the stolen transformers.
Daya said the gesture served as an incentive that will encourage the police for effective performance.
According to the police commissioner, the two receivers, John Okonkwo and I.K. as well as driver, Isyaka Tambaya of Karauwa area, in Zaria, Kaduna state.
Alhaji Daya stated that the two receivers were based in Kano while six of the received transformers were stolen from Binji and Rabah local government areas of Sokoto state.
He said that on the 22nd of December last year a case of theft and vandalisation of electrical appliances was reported to him from Binji local government areas where two transformers and one generating plant values at seven million naira were removed by unknown persons.
Similarly, on December 25, 2006, another report was reported from Rabah local government area in Lambar Tofe village that, one electrical transformer, values at one million, was removed by unknown persons.
Alhaji Daya said that when a team of detective visited the scene of the crime, a Nokia GSM handset, believed to have been abandoned by the hoodlums was recovered.
The police commissioner said that in the course of investigation, some names were discovered in the sim memory that led to the arrest of the owner of the GSM handset in the person of Isiyaka Tambaya.
Isiyaka Tambaya, confessed to the driver that conspired with three other suspects names as Alhaji Rabi’u alias Kabo Eugine and thanked God all at large and resident of Kano state.
Alhajii Daya told newsmen that the two arrested receivers have confessed to have bought the stolen items from the three suspects who are at large.
The police commissioner, therefore appealed to the members of the general public to always assist the police with useful information to arrest bad eggs.