Personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Bauchi State have arrested one Abdullahi Ibrahim, a 500-level Veterinary Medicine student of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, for allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old secondary school student, Umar Usman, to death.
State Commandant of NSCDC, Mr Ilelaboye Oyejide, disclosed this to journalists while parading the suspect at the Corps headquarters in Bauchi.
He said the suspect was arrested in Misau local government area of the State following the discovery of the body by roadside.
The Commandant said that the NSCDC Command received information that the body of the deceased teenager was found wrapped in a cloth and dumped at Misau byepass.
“This is a case of culpable homicide. On the 20th October 2023, a lifeless body of Umar Usman was found wrapped in a white cloth and dumped in Misau bypass.
“He was quickly taken to General Hospital Misau where he was certified dead and handed over to the family for burial,” Oyejide stated.
He added that, “We came to realise that there was a chat (on phone) between the suspect Ibrahim and the deceased Usman. In the communication, we saw where the suspect enticed the deceased with homosexual love, where he showed him his naked picture.
“When the deceased went to meet him, somehow, he was stabbed in the stomach and wrapped in white cloth and dumped where he was found.”
The Commandant said that during the investigation, the suspect confessed to the crime, hence he would be charged to court according to his offence.
Speaking, the suspect said that the deceased teenager had approached him with a knife, but in self-defence, the ensuing struggle between them resulted in stabbing the deceased to death.
Ibrahim stated, “I was really afraid because it was something I have never encountered in my life. That was why I wrapped the dead body in a cloth and dumped it along the bypass.”
