A 22- year- old man, simply identified as Yakubu on Thursday evening escaped being lynched by a mob for allegedly snatching a motorcycle on  Agyana road in Abaji Area Council of Abuja.

An eyewitness, Usman Baba said the suspect and two others, now at large, allegedly laid ambush for a cyclist on Agyana road.


He said the cyclist was returning from the village to Abaji town, having dropped off a passenger there when the suspects  flagged him down and snatched the motorcycle.

"The victim alerted vigilantes who trailed one of the gang members where he went to sell the motorcycle and got him arrested," he told Daily Trust.

He explained that when youths in the area got wind of the arrest of the suspect by the vigilantes, they went and demanded that he should  be handed over to them to be taught a lesson.

However, the vigilantes immediately handed over the suspect and the motorcycle to the police in the area, he said.

The Abaji Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP David Kolo, confirmed the incident and the arrest of the suspect.