LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Niger State Police Command has paraded a vigilante, Yahaya Mohammed, for allegedly killing a commercial motorcycle rider before robbing him of his motorcycle.
Mohammed was paraded alongside 37 other suspects who were allegedly involved in various criminal activities.
While parading the suspects, spokesman for the command, Abiodun Wasiu, said that investigation was ongoing to unravel the details of the crime before taking the suspects to court.
“Police received information of a lifeless body with a slit throat in a pool of his blood at Shabalile area of Mokwa. Police operatives led by DPO Mokwa Division mobilized to the scene and evacuated the corpse to the hospital morgue.
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“In the course of investigation, on 2 October at about 1130hrs, a Bajaj motorcycle suspected to have been robbed from the deceased was recovered 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.
“During interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime and said 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. Case under investigation at SCID Minna,” Wasiu said.
The spokesman noted that after the investigation, the suspect would be arraigned for culpable homicide.
While speaking with journalists, Mohammed, who confessed to the crime, lamented that he did not know why he did it and does not want to die.
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In another development, Wasiu disclosed that the Police received information that one Fatima Mohammed of Jamata area of Lokoja, Kogi State was sighted along with one other unknown person at a motor park in Ibeto; both were found in possession of one AK-47 rifle with fourteen rounds of live ammunition and two magazines.
“Consequently, Police operatives attached to Ibeto Police outstation mobilized with local vigilante to the scene. Unfortunately, before the arrival of the police team, some aggrieved mob lynched the unknown person and the said Fatima Mohammed to death.
“However, the AK-47 rifle with the live ammunition was recovered while the corpses were taken to Ibeto General Hospital. Investigation in progress”.
