Kano-The Kano State Police Command on Saturday set up a Committee to facilitate the return to their owners, 300 motorcycles impounded at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency in the state.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Magaji Majiya, disclosed this to newsmen in Kano.
Majiya said the Commissioner of Police, Mr Rabi’u Yusuf, directed the setting up of the committee to conduct the exercise.
According to him, the committee was headed by Mr Balarabe Sule, Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Metro Area, who was directed to ensure that the motorcycles were returned to their certified owners.
“There are 160 motorcycles at Metro Police Division and 140 at Hotoro Police Division. So, there are a total of 300 motorbikes to be returned to their owners,” he said.
Majiya explained that owners of the motorcycles were required to come along with their particulars to reclaim them.
“After the expiration of the deadline, the command will obtain a court order to auction all the unclaimed motorcycles,” the police spokesman warned.
He, therefore, called on the owners of the motorcycles to go to the Metro Police Division or Hotoro Police Division in order to collect them.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the motorcycles were impounded for violating the order on restriction of movement of motorcycles during the various curfews imposed on the state at the peak of insurgency.