NSCDC arrests 500-level ABU student over teenager’s killing in Bauchi

The Bauchi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a 500-level student of Veterinary Medicine of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria for allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old secondary school student to death in Misau LGA of the state.

The State Commandant of NSCDC, Ilelaboye Oyejide, who disclosed this to journalists in Bauchi, said the suspect was arrested in Misau following information that 17-year-old Umar Usman, a secondary student, was found dead, wrapped in a cloth and dumped at Misau bypass.

Oyejide explained that “On the 20th October 2023, the lifeless body of Umar Usman was found wrapped in a white cloth and dumped in Misau bypass. He was taken to General Hospital Misau where he was certified dead and handed over to the family for burial.

“When we received the report, we raised high-powered intelligence officers to go to Misau and investigate to bring the perpetrators to book. After a series of investigations by the operatives, a suspect was arrested with the name Abdullahi Ibrahim, a 500-level student of Veterinary Medicine at ABU Zaria.

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“We come to realise that there was communication between the suspect Ibrahim and the deceased Usman. In the communication, we saw where the suspect enticed the deceased with homosexual love where he showed him his naked picture.

“When the deceased went to meet him somehow he was stabbed in the stomach and wrapped in a white cloth and dumped where he was found.”

Oyejide noted that during investigation, the suspect confessed to the crime and would be charged to court.

The commandant further revealed that the suspect, Ibrahim said the deceased approached him with a knife and that self-defence led to a struggle that resulted in stabbing the deceased to death.

The suspect said, “I was really afraid because it was something I have never encountered in my life. That is why I wrapped the dead body in a cloth and dumped it along the bypass side.”