POLICE ARREST THE ALLEGED SUSPECT BEHIND THE DEATH OF A MOTORCYCLE RIDER IN NIGER STATE
A vigilante member identified as Yahaya Mohammed has been arrested by operatives of the Niger State police Command over the alleged killing of a commercial motorcycle rider at Shabalile area of Mokwa.
The information available indicates that the residents of Shabalile area found the lifeless body of the rider in a pool of blood been slitted in the throat. This swiftly made them call the police operatives to the scene which his body was evacuated to a hospital morgue.
Subsequently, the police did an intelligent investigation and found out that on 2nd October 2023 at about 1130hrs, a Bajaj motorcycle suspected to have been robbed from the deceased was retrieved from an uncompleted building in Mokwa, while the investigation led to the arrest of one Usman Yahaya Muhammed 20yrs of Kinboku-Kudu village of Mokwa.
Thereupon, the suspect was interrogated, and confessed to the crime that he boarded the motorcycle to Eppa village and while on their way, he stopped the rider and macheted him to death. He abandoned the corpse and took the motorcycle away. Yet the suspect cried that he did not know why he did it and pleaded that he does not want to die.
However, other 37 suspects who were allegedly involved in various crime were paraded alongside Yahaya Mohammed.
Meanwhile, the investigation is still ongoing for clearer details of the crime before the suspect will be charged to court.
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