{"id":73061,"date":"2023-06-17T22:02:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=73061"},"modified":"2023-06-17T22:02:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T21:02:38","slug":"police-in-niger-state-arrest-two-suspected-criminals-for-killing-14-year-old-female-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/police-in-niger-state-arrest-two-suspected-criminals-for-killing-14-year-old-female-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Police In Niger State Arrest Two Suspected Criminals For \u2018killing\u2019 14-Year-Old Female Student\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"H_1BObGP iz_FF\" data-test-id=\"message-group-content\" data-touch-scroll-enabled=\"true\">\n<div class=\"k_w jb_7ceA d_93qVS D_F ek_BB\">\n<div class=\"U_fq7 em_N\" data-test-id=\"message-card\">\n<div class=\"U_6MGW\">\n<div data-test-id=\"message-view-body\">\n<div class=\"msg-body P_wpofO iy_A\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body-content\">\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6Fd5 N_6Fd5\">\n<div data-test-id=\"message-body\">\n<div id=\"yiv3832649594\">\n<div>Olabode Adaramola<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Police in Niger State have announced the arrest of one\u00a0 Nuhu Mohammed, 26- year old\u00a0 and Sani Usman, 22- , of Izom town, Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Police in Niger State have arrested one 26-year-old Nuhu Mohammed and Sani Usman, 22- year old\u00a0 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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Police Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command,DSP Wasiu Abiodun,\u00a0 in a statement made available to the newsmen on Friday in Minna said the young girl was killed at her parents\u2019 residence in Izom, Gurara LGA on June 5, 2023 when her mother was away to Izom Market.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abiodun stated further that one of the suspects, Nuhu, who was a tenant in the same house allegedly\u00a0 confessed during the police intvestigation that in the early hours of the same day, the deceased&#8217;s\u00a0 mother accused him of stealing her N90,000 stressing\u00a0 that the accusation got him angry, and he decided to kill the girl.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The suspects were said to have\u00a0 left the scene and locked the house gate from outside only for the mother to come back from the market and found the victim&#8217;s\u00a0 lifeless lifeless body on the floor in the house<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abiodun further disclosed that\u00a0 six knives, two cutlasses, a digger and a suspected blood-stained shirt belonging to Nuhu were discovered when police searched his room.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abiodun noted that\u00a0 the sum of N1.27 million was recovered from the suspect during his arrest, hilighting\u00a0 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\u00a0 procure AK-47 ammunition.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cHe stressed\u00a0 that the purpose of the intended 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