By Babatunde Solanke
A suspect is now cooling off his feet in the Bauchi State Police Command cell for allegedly removing the hand of a 25-year-old man and stabbing him in the head.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, confirmed the arrest of the suspect in a statement issued on Friday,28 July, 2023.
Wakil explained that the suspect had for the past two years been on the command’s wanted list over thuggery and causing grievous harm to his victims.
Wakil, who said the suspect committed the crime with two others still at large, added that luck ran out of the suspect when a police patrol team raided a black spot in a suburb of the Bauchi metropolis and arrested him.
“On Saturday, July 22, 2023, at about 6.30pm, police operatives attached to ‘C’ Divisional Headquarters, while on a visibility policing patrol, identified and raided a black spot located at Sabon Layi, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis which led to the arrest of one Muhammad Abdullahi, aka Luwawu, male, of the same address.”
Wakil said in the statement that the suspect has been on the police watch list since 2021 for alleged criminal conspiracy, thuggery, causing grievous hurt and attempting to commit an offence to wit, culpable homicide.
The statement added further that sometime in 2021, the suspect criminally conspired with Sani Danfada, Manu Maidawa and two others, now at large, all of the same address while armed with machetes and other deadly weapons attacked and stabbed one Mubarak Abdullahi, (25) of Unguwan Sarakuna area on his head and cut off his left hand from the Articulatio radiocarpalis.
According to Wakil, an investigation revealed that the suspects committed the alleged offence, adding that Abdullahi confessed to committing the offence during interrogation.
The state police spokesperson added that the police were making everything possible to track down the remaining suspects, after which they would be charged to court.