Police Sergeant arrested for stealing motorcycle in Abia

The criminal officer, according to Abia Facts,
Sergeant Matthew Elah , was arrested by
operatives attached to the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad (SARS), in the state for allegedly
snatching a motorcycle from its owner at
gunpoint.
It was learned that Sergeant Elah, attached to
the Department of Operations in Port Harcourt,
Rivers State Police Command, snatched the
motorcycle » from the owner at Umuteke-
Akwette in Ukwa-West Local Government Area of
the state, along one Sergeant Isah Alhaji attached
to 48 PMF, Ahoada, who is now at large.
While confessing to the crime, Sergeant Elah said
Alhaji had asked him to accompany him for an
operation without giving the details to him.
“Sergeant Alhaji came to my house at Obehie and
asked me to accompany him to see somebody, but
I saw him with a gun and asked him where he got
the gun from and he told me that he got it from
armed robbers who were arrested for snatching a
motorcycle.
So, he stopped one motorcyclist who carried the
two of us, but along the way, he asked the man to
stop and help him to open one gate while I was
holding the gun for him. But he later climbed the
bike and zoomed off.”

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Adeleye
Oyebade, while parading the suspect at the
Command headquarters in Umuahia, said efforts
were in top gear to arrest the fleeing sergeant
and recover the stolen motorcycle.