Police in Bauchi have arrested one Adamu Ibrahim, a 15-year-old herder, for allegedly chopping off the hand of a farmer in Jital community of Bauchi local government.
LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that Adamu hurt the farmer after he trespassed into his rice farmland, a repeated practice that the farmer complained about to the father several times.
Police spokesman SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil said the victim was responding to treatment at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital Bauchi.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect had on several occasions trespassed into the victim’s farmland with his cows while rearing. The unfortunate incident followed a series of complaints to the suspect’s father by the victim for intrusion into his rice farmland by the suspect.
“Similarly, the investigation revealed that on the 24th of August 2023, the suspect who was armed with a stick and machete, mischievously invaded the victim’s farmland and destroyed the yet-to-be-ascertained value of crops.
“A disagreement ensued, in the course of which the suspect stabbed the victim upon asking him to vacate his farmland. As a result, the victim’s left hand was chopped off. The suspect drew his machete and chopped off the left hand of the victim,” police said.
He said the suspect would be charged to court as soon as police complete investigation into the matter.
