The Bauchi Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has reported the arrest of a 500-level student from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old student.
During a press briefing on Sunday, NSCDC Commandant Ilelaboye Oyejide disclosed this disturbing incident. The suspect was apprehended within Misau Local Government Area in Bauchi State.
According to Oyejide, the NSCDC received information about the discovery of the lifeless body of the victim, Umar Usman, a secondary school student from Misau, which had been wrapped in white cloth and abandoned at Misau bypass.
“This is a case of culpable homicide,” he said, adding that the incident happened on October 23.
“He was quickly taken to the General Hospital, Misau, where he was certified dead and handed over to the family for burial,” Oyejide said .
“When we received the report, we raised high power intelligence officers to go to Misau and investigate to bring the perpetrators to book.
He said that after a series of investigations by the operatives, “a suspect, Abdullahi Ibrahim, a 500-level student of Veterinary Medicine, ABU, Zaria, was arrested.
“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,” he said.
According to Oyejide, the suspect confessed to the crime during investigation.
He said that the suspect would be charged to court, “according to his offence”.
“The suspect said that the deceased approached him with a knife and that 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 that the suspect claimed that because he was afraid, he decided to wrap the body in a cloth and dumped it along the by-pass.
