The Bauchi State Office of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has confirmed the arrest of Abdullahi Ibrahim, a 500-level student of Veterinary Medicine of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, for killing 17-year-old boy, Umar Usman in Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
This was confirmed to journalists in Bauchi recently by Mr. Ilelaboye Oyejide, the NSCDC Commander in Bauchi State. He disclosed that the suspect was arrested in Misau Local Government Area of the state.
He explained that the Command received information that 17-year-old secondary school student, Umar Usman in Misau was found wrapped in a cloth and dumped at Misau bypass.
“This is a case of culpable homicide. On the 20th of October 2023, the 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 said.
“When we received the tragic report, without delay, we raised high-powered intelligence officers to go to Misau, investigate and bring the perpetrators to book.
He said after a series of investigations by the operatives, a suspect was arrested with the name Abdullahi Ibrahim, a 500-level student of Veterinary Medicine ABU Zaria.
“We came to realise that there was a chart communication between the suspect Ibrahim and the deceased Usman.
“In the communication, we saw where the suspect enticed the deceased with homosexual love by showing 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 during the investigation, the suspect confessed to the crime and would be charged to the court accordingly for justice to take its course.
Abdullahi Ibrahim said that the deceased approached him with a knife in self-defence which led to a struggle that resulted in stabbing the deceased to death.
“I was really afraid because it was something I had never encountered in my life. Which is why I wrapped the dead body in a cloth and dumped it along the bypass,” he said.
