Police spokesperson Maureen Chinaka said the incident was reported at the Ohuhu Police Station on November 28. She added that the parents reported that the Keke rider took the children to an unknown destination.
“They reported the matter to the Ohuhu Police Station and the DPO in charge swung into action, searching for the kids in the neighbourhood, including hotels.
“Investigation is ongoing on the matter,” she said. We urge anyone with information that can aid in locating them to promptly report to the nearest police station,” she added.
He became a subject of mockery by his friends, even the elders in his Haye community of Yankaba, Nasarawa Local Government Area when he proved his undiluted honesty.
The tricycle rider, Auwalu Salisu, 22, who operates in Kano State, is by no means a rich guy. A school dropout, his parents, faced with the current economic hardship, are only trying to make ends meet.
So, when he stumbled on the missing N15 million, he would have reasoned like his critics: “Allah has His own way of blessing people,” especially when the owner is a Chadian passenger who came from Chad to buy goods in Kano.
Instead, he was afraid and worried to be in position of such a huge sum of money forgotten in the tricycle which he operates daily to supplement the efforts of his parents in fending for them.
He returned the N15 million, which when converted include 10.130 million CFA and N2.9 million. Since that singular rare act, the humble story of Salisu has changed. He is now a celebrity, an ambassador of youths and a reference point in honesty.
Above all, he has now gotten multiple rewards, in cash and kind, which will, no doubt, catapult him to grace.
First to honour him was the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), which rewarded him with N100,000. The cash gift was presented by the ACF Chairman, Dr Gwani Farouk, in a public ceremony.
Farouk, while presenting the cash prize, said “the tricyclist has exhibited the highest sense of honesty by returning the money to the passenger who forgot it in his tricycle, notwithstanding the economic challenges currently strangling the country.” He urged the Kano State Government to reward Salisu hugely.
Farouk said: “It’s not about the amount that ACF has decided to honour him with but the highest form of honesty which he exhibited by returning the money to his passenger in spite of the economic challenges he is facing.
“ACF will not only donate money to Salisu but will involve him in its activities to serve as a lesson and example to his friends and youths in the country.
“Salihu, by his action, has demonstrated the fact that there is still hope in Nigerian youths. He has elevated the image of Kano State and that of Nigeria in the estimation of the world.”
It was also reported that the chap of the moment has been given a brand new tricycle for his business operation.
Before the ACF’s cash reward, the owner of the money, Musa Hassan, gave Salisu the sum of N400,000 in appreciation.
Kano State House of Assembly has also pledged to reward the young tricycle rider for his honesty and proven integrity.
The 40-member Assembly took a unanimous decision to contribute a percentage from their individual salaries to the tricyclist.
The most unusual reward, however, came from the Kano Matchmaking Marriage Association also known as Mai Dalilin Aure, which offered four women to the tricycle rider.
While joining others to reward Salisu for his honesty, the matchmaking group gave him an option of 10 women to select the four wives from.
The Chairman of the association, Alhaji Mukhtar Inuwa Yakasai, who spoke on Freedom Radio, Kano, said that two of the 10 ladies that would be made available are his daughters.
Yakasai said: “The boy has shown the good character of our Noble Prophet, Muhammad (SAW). He is indeed trustworthy. That is why we have decided to honour him with these gifts.
“There are 10 women for him to select four. Two of them are my daughters.”
He became a subject of mockery by his friends, even the elders in his Haye community of Yankaba, Nasarawa Local Government Area when he proved his undiluted honesty.
The tricycle rider, Auwalu Salisu, 22, who operates in Kano State, is by no means a rich guy. A school dropout, his parents, faced with the current economic hardship, are only trying to make ends meet.
So, when he stumbled on the missing N15 million, he would have reasoned like his critics: “Allah has His own way of blessing people,” especially when the owner is a Chadian passenger who came from Chad to buy goods in Kano.
Instead, he was afraid and worried to be in position of such a huge sum of money forgotten in the tricycle which he operates daily to supplement the efforts of his parents in fending for them.
He returned the N15 million, which when converted include 10.130 million CFA and N2.9 million. Since that singular rare act, the humble story of Salisu has changed. He is now a celebrity, an ambassador of youths and a reference point in honesty.
Above all, he has now gotten multiple rewards, in cash and kind, which will, no doubt, catapult him to grace.
First to honour him was the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), which rewarded him with N100,000. The cash gift was presented by the ACF Chairman, Dr Gwani Farouk, in a public ceremony.
Farouk, while presenting the cash prize, said “the tricyclist has exhibited the highest sense of honesty by returning the money to the passenger who forgot it in his tricycle, notwithstanding the economic challenges currently strangling the country.” He urged the Kano State Government to reward Salisu hugely.
Farouk said: “It’s not about the amount that ACF has decided to honour him with but the highest form of honesty which he exhibited by returning the money to his passenger in spite of the economic challenges he is facing.
“ACF will not only donate money to Salisu but will involve him in its activities to serve as a lesson and example to his friends and youths in the country.
“Salihu, by his action, has demonstrated the fact that there is still hope in Nigerian youths. He has elevated the image of Kano State and that of Nigeria in the estimation of the world.”
It was also reported that the chap of the moment has been given a brand new tricycle for his business operation.
Before the ACF’s cash reward, the owner of the money, Musa Hassan, gave Salisu the sum of N400,000 in appreciation.
Kano State House of Assembly has also pledged to reward the young tricycle rider for his honesty and proven integrity.
The 40-member Assembly took a unanimous decision to contribute a percentage from their individual salaries to the tricyclist.
The most unusual reward, however, came from the Kano Matchmaking Marriage Association also known as Mai Dalilin Aure, which offered four women to the tricycle rider.
While joining others to reward Salisu for his honesty, the matchmaking group gave him an option of 10 women to select the four wives from.
The Chairman of the association, Alhaji Mukhtar Inuwa Yakasai, who spoke on Freedom Radio, Kano, said that two of the 10 ladies that would be made available are his daughters.
Yakasai said: “The boy has shown the good character of our Noble Prophet, Muhammad (SAW). He is indeed trustworthy. That is why we have decided to honour him with these gifts.
“There are 10 women for him to select four. Two of them are my daughters.”
Salisu said he returned the money after an announcement about the missing money on a radio station in Kano.
He said he did not notice that his passenger had forgotten the money in his tricycle when he (the Chadian) alighted, until he got home.
“After discovering the money, I told my parents about it but they ordered me to go and look for the owner,” he said.
A 24-year-old tricyclist, Tochukwu Nwite, has been remanded in Ikoyi prison by an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court for alleged murder.
Tochukwu, who hails from Ebonyi State, was said to have killed 27-year-old Emmanuel Uko Ndifreke.
His plea was not taken
Prosecuting Inspector Babatope Julius told the court that the accused conspired with others at large to commit the offence.
“The accused beat the deceased to death with a plank on December 25 around 10pm at 1, New Road, Badore Street, Ajah, Lagos.”
The offence contravenes Section 221 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, he said.
Magistrate M.O Olajuwon ordered that the accused be remanded in Ikoyi prison pending advice by the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
Olajuwon adjourned the matter till March 7.
There was a mild drama around Ladipo auto parts market in Mushin last Thursday, when some policemen attempted to forcibly arrest a commercial tricyclist.
One of the policemen was said to have gone wild and threatened to shoot one of the passersby who sought to know the tricyclist’s offence.
It took the intervention of a soldier to stop Sergeant Segun Akingbemiro from carrying out his threat.
The Nation learnt that the policemen from Olosan Police Division were at the Ladipo intersection checking vehicles.
The aged trycyclist was said to have suddenly applied the brakes, because the officer, who stopped him, was not in uniform.
An eyewitness, Akin Olawale, told The Nation that there was an argument between the officer and the tricyclist before Akingbemiro joined and started harassing the old man.
Other officers drove their vehicle to block the man’s tricycle.
“Before we knew it, the officer (Akingbemiro) dragged the man to where their bus was parked and hit the man’s head on their bus. This was what caused people’s cries. We decided to move closer and confronted him for that wicked act. He started threatening us with arrest,” he said.
When The Nation got to the scene, Akingbemiro, who was called by his first name Segun by his colleagues, was seen dragging a passerby by his trousers.
“What is my offence? Because we say what you did was wrong. If you kill the man, will you be happy? You can’t arrest me for saying the truth,” the man told Akingbemiro.
The soldier freed the man.
As the officers were leaving, the people booed them.
Akingbemiro, who drove suddenly parked on the road and came out with a gun, corked it, saying: “I will kill you and nothing will happen here.”
When an Inspector in mufti challenged him, he told him off, saying: “I will kill them and you (the inspector) will carry them away.”
The soldier confronted him again, warning him against the repercussion of shooting.
A tricycle rider, popularly called, “Keke Marwa”, has reportedly been apprehended by operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command for allegedly abducting a 15 – year old girl and turning her into sex slave.
According to a press statement by the RRS, the suspect, Dada Azeez, 28, reportedly abducted Bukunmi on October 5 while on errand for her aunt in Agege area before the RRS operatives rescued her on October 21th, 2016 from his hideout in Agege.
The alleged abduction of the girl was disclosed by her sister, Mrs Gbemisola, who stated that the girl was abducted with a sum of N58,000 meant for her thrift contribution.
The suspect, after weeks of lodging in several locations to evade arrest, was eventually nabbed by the operatives at his residence at 7, Oseni Street, Danjuma Cinema area, Agege with the girl in his one room apartment.
Confessing to the crime, the suspect disclosed that he wooed the girl when she was 14 years old at her sister’ shop in Agege.
“We started having secret affair about a year ago. But her sister frowned at our relationship when she got to know.
” Unknown to her, we were still seeing each other. In order to be having regular conversation with her, I bought a mobile phone for her and instructed her to hide it from her sister. So, whenever she intended coming to meet me, she will call and I will describe our meeting point for her”.
He added “then I thought if she could elope with me that would be better for us. I started working on her psyche and deceiving her with some material things”.
“I was able to perpetrate the crime when her sister sent her on errand on one Sunday afternoon. However, I didn’t know she was with such amount of money. I just wanted to take her far away from her guardian for not supporting our relationship,” he revealed.
Narrating her ordeal, Bukunmi noted that the suspect forcefully deflowered her, adding that, he turned her to a sex slave.
According to her,” he forced himself on me the very first day I visited him at his residence. Ever since, he has been having sex with me without wearing condom.”
He slept with me anywhere and even at his friends’ place where he hid me for weeks. I succumbed to him because I couldn’t go back home”.
She said that the suspect collected the N58,000 her sister gave her. “He fed me thrice a day probably from that thrift contribution money”, she added.
The victim, who looked pale when he was arrested, said that, she eloped with him out of ignorance.
Also arrested along with him, was one of his friends, Wasiu Agunbiade, who aided the abduction by accommodating the suspect and the teenager in his one-room apartment in Agege.
He said that he only accommodated them for a night, adding that he never knew he abducted the little girl.
“If I had known the girl was abducted, I would have advised him to return her to her parents. I never believed he could commit such crime.
He begged me to accommodate them for one night with her in my room, stressing, “he left my place the following day to somewhere else. I regretted allowing them to pass the night in my place”.
In her reaction, sister of the abducted girl, who was so elated upon seeing her niece, said that the family will take her to hospital for medical check-up.
While confirming the incident, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Superintendent of Police, SP Dolapo Badmus, warned parents and guardians against exposing their wards and children to social vices around their environment.
The suspect, friend and the abducted girl have been transferred to the Divisional Police Office in Agege where the case was initially reported before RRS operatives took it up and rescued the girl.
There was pandemonium at Canoe in Isolo Local Council Development Area of Lagos yesterday as a policeman and a tricyclist engaged in a free-for-all.
The incident which occurred around 8:30am, close to the tricyclists’ park was said to have been triggered by a policeman in multi who slapped the commercial rider.
It was gathered that the tricyclist was heading toward Ajao Estate when he almost hit a man standing by the road side.
In anger, the man was said to have slapped the operator several times, leading to retaliation.
Not knowing that the man was a policeman, the tricyclist retaliated, beating him to a pulp before onlookers intervened.
The Nation gathered that it was in the course of the fight that the rider knew he had attacked a policeman and fled, abandoning his tricycle.
Policemen from Ajao Estate Division were said to have stormed the area in two patrol vans in search of the operator.
According to eyewitnesses, the policemen carried the tricycle as well as their beaten colleague away, but no one has seen the operator after the fight.
An eyewitness said: “The policeman was not on uniform. He was the one who slapped the tricyclist first for attempting to hit him and then, the operator retaliated. That was how the fight started. People around tried to separate them. The operator fled after he knew that the man was a police officer. He abandoned his tricycle. It was people around who showed the police when they came that the tricycle belonged to him and they took it away.”
