CITY NEWS Police nab suspect over theft Accept transfer or resign, Abaji boss tells teachers
Asuspected pick pocket has been arrested by police in Gwarinpa after he allegedly stole N43,000 from the pocket of a tricycle passenger on Tuesday.
A police source at the division said the victim had boarded a tricycle after he left a bank on First Avenue where he withdrew N84,000.
The source said, “As he came out of the bank, he boarded a ‘Keke NAPEP’ and two other passengers joined him, one entering from the left and the other from the right hand side, placing him in the middle.
“Before he left the bank, he had divided the money into two, putting N43,000 in his trouser left pocket and N41, 000 in the right side pocket,” the source said.
The source said one of the passengers then sneezed in the victim’s face causing a mild confrontation between them. The other passenger had swiftly removed N43,000 from his left pocket during the distraction.
The victim, after the two passengers had alighted, discovered that the money was missing and alerted the ‘Keke NAPEP’ operator.
“The tricycle rider returned to where one of the passengers alighted and saw him. He reported to some of our officers on patrol stationed near the place,” the source added.
“When our officers approached him, he denied but when they frisked him, N43,000 was found in his pocket, same amount reported stolen by the victim,” he said.
The Gwarimpa Divisional Police Officer, CSP Nuruddeen Sabo, said the suspect confessed to the crime.
He said the suspect, identified as Yusuf Bello would be prosecuted after conclusion of investigation. The chairman of Abaji Area Council, Alhaji Abdulrahman Ajiya, has said that any primary school teacher that refused to accept transfer to another school should resign.
Ajiya, represented by the head of department for Education of the council, Hajiya Hadiza Abdullahi Umar, stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Acting Secretary of Local Education Authority (LEA) of the council, Ada Abakpa.
The meeting, which had primary school teachers, headmasters, executives of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and representatives of the Ona of Abaji, Alhaji Adamu Baba Yunusa, held at Naharati Primary School on Tuesday.
He said when teachers stayed long at posting they lose interest to acquire new knowledge and sometimes developed lukewarm attitude to work.
The chairman also said it was worrisome that some primary school teachers have stayed in some schoor between 10 and 15 years, yet they would not accept to be transferred to other schools.
He also expressed displeasure that some teachers were absconding from their places of work, saying the LEA would henceforth effect deduction from salaries of teachers that absconded from their places of work.