Police In Niger State Arrest Two Suspected Criminals For ‘killing’ 14-Year-Old Female Student 

Olabode Adaramola

Police in Niger State have announced the arrest of one  Nuhu Mohammed, 26- year old  and Sani Usman, 22- , of Izom town, Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State.

Police in Niger State have arrested one 26-year-old Nuhu Mohammed and Sani Usman, 22- year old  of Izom town, in Gurara LGA of Niger State for allaged criminal conspiracy and killing of a 14-year-old secondary school student identified as Ubaida Surajo.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command,DSP Wasiu Abiodun,  in a statement made available to the newsmen on Friday in Minna said the young girl was killed at her parents’ residence in Izom, Gurara LGA on June 5, 2023 when her mother was away to Izom Market.

Abiodun stated further that one of the suspects, Nuhu, who was a tenant in the same house allegedly  confessed during the police intvestigation that in the early hours of the same day, the deceased’s  mother accused him of stealing her N90,000 stressing  that the accusation got him angry, and he decided to kill the girl.

He said the suspect explained that he invited his friend, Sani, to the house to assist him and they both attacked the girl when she returned from school by strangulating her to death.

The suspects were said to have  left the scene and locked the house gate from outside only for the mother to come back from the market and found the victim’s  lifeless lifeless body on the floor in the house

Abiodun further disclosed that  six knives, two cutlasses, a digger and a suspected blood-stained shirt belonging to Nuhu were discovered when police searched his room.

In another development, police in the state have arrested one 54-year-old Mohammed Bande ((aka Kachalla) of Saminaka Village, Lapai LGA of Niger State suspected to be a kidnapper while procuring arms and ammunition in Lambata, Gurara LGA.

The Image Maker of the State Police Command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, in a statement said the suspect was apprehended following an intelligence received about his underworld criminal.activities.

Abiodun noted that  the sum of N1.27 million was recovered from the suspect during his arrest, hilighting  that during interrogation, the suspect was said to have confessed that the money was given to him by one Gora of the same village, who is presently at large, to meet a yet-to-be-identified arms dealer at Lambata in Gurara LGA of today he state to  procure AK-47 ammunition.

“He stressed  that the purpose of the intended procurement was to boost their arms capacity for continued kidnapping and cattle rustling activities around Saminaka, Lapai, Lambata and its environs.

“He also said that he was promised N250,000 for the transaction,” the statement added.

The Police Spokesman  said effort was ongoing to apprehend the said Gora who is on the run, and other accomplices.