Car thieves arrested while registering stolen vehicles in Nasarawa

The Nasarawa State Revenue Service Board said it yesterday foiled attempts by suspected robbers to register some stolen vehicles.

It also said three of the suspects were arrested.

This is coming from the chairman of the board, Usman Akposhi who told reporters that the suspects were nabbed while attempting to renew the licenses of the stolen vehicles.

Akposhi further disclosed that the vehicles were found to have been stolen in Lagos, Cross River and Kogi states.

According to him, “When we discovered that they were stolen cars through the board database system of renewal of vehicles licences and the names of the suspects did not conform with the names we have in the database, we had no other option but to call the rightful owners of the cars through their telephone numbers and the suspects were handed over to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for further investigation.”

Also the Commandant of the NSCDC in the state, Barshir Lawal-Kano, said the vehicles had been handed over to their various owners.

He said, “After thorough investigations, the command discovered that the three suspects were not the rightful owners; so, we handed over the cars to their owners.”

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