ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 19-year-old, Yakubu Tanko, for killing his friend and dumping the body in a septic tank.
The Nation reports that Tanko entered into 14-year-old Sikiru Tajudeen’s room in the Tundun Fulani area of Minna, and hit him with a stick he took from the kitchen.
The suspect confessed that after he hit the deceased, blood rushed out and he left him lying dead on the bed and went away.
“I returned two hours later and put the body in a sack until about 8pm. I then borrowed a wheelbarrow and took the body to an open soak away close by and dumped the body inside. I thought nobody would see the body again,” he confessed.
On why he killed his friend, Tanko said ‘I personally planned it and did it’.
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Police spokesperson Wasiu Abiodun revealed that the deceased was reported missing at the Bosso Police Division as his family said they found his trouser, a stick, and a stone with blood stains inside his room.
“A day later, the community found the body after tracing a strange odour coming from a septic tank within the community. A sack was found with Sikiru’s body inside it.
“Further findings from the community pointed to Yakubu Tanko and he was immediately arrested. He confessed to the homicide during interrogation while he admitted that the deceased was his friend,” Abiodun said.
He added that the suspect has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation.
Similarly, a suspected serial thief, Babalola Daniel, has allegedly killed his childhood friend, Evangelist Opeyemi Oyelakin, dumped the body in a pit and stole the deceased’s motorcycle.
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Babalola also allegedly sold the motorcycle for N130,000 in Ibadan.
He was said to have committed the offence on March 15 in Ondo town.
According to the police, Daniel has been stealing motorcycles since 2021 from various towns such as Akure, Ekiti, Ilesha and Ife.
According sources, Daniel and his accomplice, Sikiru Mutiu, asked the deceased to convey them to their farm at Oke-Igbo Area.
But, getting there, Mutiu gripped Oyelakin from behind while Daniel hit his head with a stick and stone until he died.