Police arraign 123 drivers over covered, missing number plates

The Kano State Police Command says it has arraigned 123 drivers for utilizing vehicles with covered, defaced, oregon missing fig plates since the motorboat of Operation Clean Plates.

Speaking astatine a property briefing connected Monday, Commissioner of Police Ibrahim Adamu Bakori said the cognition was introduced to forestall criminals from utilizing unregistered vehicles to evade detection.

“The nonsubjective remains clear: to escaped Kano State of vehicles plying our roads with covered, defaced, oregon nary registration numbers,” Bakori said.

He added that “all the drivers of the intercepted vehicles person been charged to tribunal and are being prosecuted” nether the law.

According to the constabulary commissioner, officers intercepted 123 vehicles crossed Kano State’s 44 section authorities areas during the enforcement exercise.

Bakori besides announced a large breakthrough recorded by officers from the Panshekara Police Division connected July 9, aft they stopped a conveyance without a registration sheet successful Kano metropolis.

He said the driver, identified arsenic 51-year-old Mahi Ibrahim of Rijiyar Zaki, allegedly refused to halt and attempted to fly earlier helium was arrested.

Police said a hunt of the fishy and the conveyance led to the betterment of a Beretta pistol, dried leaves suspected to beryllium cannabis, a crisp knife, electrical wires, 120 lithium batteries, and a conveyance suspecte...