An Abuja farm owner was on Saturday robbed by two suspected hoodlums who have been arrested while stealing maize along the Yimi-Machadna community near Zuba, Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT.
According to DailyTrust, a member of the vigilante group in the area said the incident happened on Saturday, around 11 pm, when the suspects invaded a large maize farm that belongs to one Malam Rabiu Gambo.
He said the suspects rode on a motorcycle with two empty big sacks and harvested the maize but were apprehended.
He said the farm owner had reported the theft of maize on his farm last week and that the vigilantes were informed.
He said, “Actually, one of them took one full bag of the maize on a bike to an uncompleted building before Ikwa village to hide, and he came back to carry the second one when the vigilantes apprehended them.”
According to him, the suspects who confessed to stealing the maize said they had arranged with a corn seller at Madalla where they intended to go and sell the maize.
According to the vigilantes, the farm owner said since he had recovered two sacks of the stolen maize, the suspects should be set free.
The spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, SP Adeh Josephine, had not responded at the time of filing the report.
