Gombe governor backs police ban on motorcycle movement

Gombe Remark Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, has thrown his weight in the abet of the police ban on bike stream between 7 pm and 6 am as section of measures to checkmate formative years thuggery in the impart.

The Guardian remembers that the impart police expose restricted bike stream at evening in consequence of the escalation of thuggery, cellular telephone snatching and attacks on innocent residents of the impart by infamous “Yan kalare” thugs.

In his response to complaints on the ban on silly evening bike stream throughout the originate of the 2025 wet season farming, Governor Inuwa said, despite no longer being consulted before the resolution used to be made, he would no longer ask the police to remove the ban “in consequence of they're doing their tasks”.

Whereas emphasising the necessity for safety measures to curb thuggery and violence in the impart, Inuwa said over 1,000 motorcycles win been confiscated for the reason that restriction took attain, with larger than 90 per cent of them stumbled on to be unregistered or missing license plates.

This, he said, makes it easy for criminals to commit crimes and spoil out without being traced.

The governor expressed anguish over the increasing cases of adolescent boys carrying weapons treasure machetes to assault innocent residents, citing most up-to-date incidents the put a mighty Islamic cleric, Sheikh Albani Kuri, and an entrepreneur, Amadi Kasiran, were killed by thugs in the impart in makes an strive to snatch their phones.

He directed safety brokers to deal decisively with thugs without anguish or favour, asking that fogeys who bail out their teenagers arrested for thuggery must also face penalties.

“If a mother or father comes to bail out a thug arrested by safety brokers, that mother or father must be arrested as well,” he said.