The Nigeria Security and Civil 1Defen1 Corps (NSCDC) Bauchi command said it arrested a 500-level Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) student for stabbing a 17-year-old student to death.
NSCDC commandant Ilelaboye Oyejide said this on Sunday while briefing journalists in Bauchi on the incident.
Mr Oyejide said the suspect was arrested in Misau local council.
He said the command received information that the deceased, Umar Usman, a secondary school student from Misau, was found wrapped in a white cloth and dumped at Misau bypass.
“This is a case of culpable homicide,” he said, adding that the incident happened on October 24. “He was quickly taken to the General Hospital, Misau, where he was certified dead and handed over to the family for burial,” Mr Oyejide said.
He added, “When we received the report, we raised high-power intelligence officers to go to Misau and investigate to bring the perpetrators to book.”
The NSCDC commandant added that after a series of investigations by the operatives, “a suspect, Abdullahi Ibrahim, a 500-level student of Veterinary Medicine, ABU, Zaria, was arrested.”
Mr Oyejide stated, “We came to realise that there was a communication chat between the suspect and the deceased. In the communication, we saw where the suspect enticed the deceased with homosexual love and 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.”
According to Mr Oyejide, the suspect confessed to the crime during the investigation. He said the suspect would be charged to court.
“The suspect said that the deceased approached him with a knife and, in self-defence, there was a struggle that resulted in his stabbing the deceased to death.
“He also said that he was really afraid because it was something he had never encountered in his life,” the NSCDC boss said.
He further said the suspect claimed that because he was afraid, he decided to wrap the body in a cloth and dump it along the bypass.
(NAN)
