Operatives of Niger state police command has arrested two suspected killers of late Hassan Shehu.
It could be recalled that on April 12, a case of culpable homicide was reported at Bosso division, in which one late Hassan Shehu aged 28, a business man at Kure market, Minna, was invited to Tudun-fulani area of Bosso by one Bashir Ibrahim for a purported business transaction.
On arrival at the venue, the deceased in an apartment was allegedly stabbed to death by the suspect who later escaped from the scene with the victim’s Peugeot 206 vehicle and about two million naira there-in the vehicle.
Command spokesperson, DSP Wasiu Abiodun disclosed that upon receipt of the incident, the command swung into action upon the marching order of the Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command CP Monday Bala Kuryas to the operatives of the Command to ensure that the perpetrator(s) of the dastard act are brought to book.
Acting on technically intelligence on April 19, operatives attached to Intelligence Unit of the Command arrested the following suspects: Bashir Ibrahim aged 25yrs and Aliyu Ibrahim aged 22yrs both who are brothers and ‘m’ of Tundun-Fulani Area, Bosso.
During interrogation, the suspects confessed to the crime that both suspects conspired with one Suleiman Mahmud aged 29yrs ‘m’ of same address presently at large to tie the victim and dispossessed him of the money in his car, but on entering the house, the deceased struggled with the said Suleiman while Aliyu stabbed the victim on the chest and was abandoned till he bled to death.
Bashir whom the deceased was his best man during his wedding in last year confessed further to have escaped from the scene with the victim’s vehicle which contained about two million naira and later travelled to Kano to purchase some chemical for washing of gold items from the deceased’s money.
The suspects were arrested in a hotel along Western Bye-Pass, Minna while one Abdullahi Garba aged 22yrs ‘m’ of Tunga-Mallam, Paikoro LGA was equally apprehended for purchasing the victim’s phone from Aliyu at the rate of three thousand naira with an exchange of another phone.
Meanwhile, a sum of five hundred and twenty four thousand naira was recovered from Bashir, two bottles of suspected chemical substances which he claimed to have purchased from Kano with seven hundred thousand naira and the said vehicle were also recovered.
Case is under investigation as effort is ongoing to apprehend Suleiman Mahmud while suspects will be arrainged to court for criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and receiving stolen property immediately after investigation is concluded.
Source: www.clintonsdaily.com
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