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HOTPEN – Katsina State Police Command have arrested three suspected robbers who use charms to break into houses in Daura Local Government Area.
This was a made a disclosure to newsmen on Tuesday by the Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah.
The spokesman revealed that the trio were apprehended following a tip off last week.
They are Abdullahi Sa’idu, 50, from Hadejia in Jigawa; Umar Abubakar Faruk, 23, from Badawa Quarters in Kano, and Zakariyya Hussaini, 25, from Yar Leman in Jigawa.
Luck ran out of them after they broke into the homes of Idris Ahmed, Mujihabi Yusif, Sa’a Abdu, Ibrahim Sani and Umar Sani, all of the same address.
“The suspects confessed to using charms that would lure their victims to sleep until they would have finished committing their nefarious act”, Isah added.
They also confessed to have gotten their charms from a ritualist in Niger Republic.
Isah noted that the Exhibits recovered from the robbers include fabricated keys, house-breaking tools, a machete, five mobile phones, iron pinches and charms.
The suspects would be charged to court after completion of the further investigations.