Operatives of Kano Police Command on Wednesday said it intercepted 2,000 cartoons of Dangote branded Indomie noodles in Kano. The lorry packed noodles
Commissioner of Police in Kano, Abu Sani disclosed that 2,000 out of 3,850 cartons of the noodles were recovered from a trader in Singer market in Kano after a piece of intelligent information. Sani said that the suspect had confessed to have purchased the noodles from those that diverted the items from Benue to Kano.
However, the CP did not disclose the whereabouts of those behind the diversion of the food items. But the suspect, one Yusuf Abdullah, 30 years old, said he bought the items from the beneficiaries of the palliatives.
The suspect who confessed he was aware the items were being diverted said that “many of the beneficiaries came to the market to voluntarily sell them. Some of them exchanged the noodles rice while some sold it to us.”
