Police have arrested an 18-year-old man who killed his aunt in Kano Kano State Police have arrested an 18-year-old man, Abdulsamad Sulei...
Police have arrested an 18-year-old man who killed his aunt in Kano
Kano State Police have arrested an 18-year-old man, Abdulsamad Suleiman, for allegedly killing his mother's sister, Rukayya Jamilu and injuring her two children at her wedding venue.
The incident took place in February, when police found the body covered in blood, after her husband reported that he had returned home to find his landlord in the same condition around 8 p.m.
The Commissioner of Police, Samuel Shu'aibu Dikko, immediately rushed the woman and her children to the Murtala Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead, and the children continued to receive medical attention.
In a statement issued by the force's spokesperson, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa on Wednesday night, the suspect, Suleiman, and his friend, Mu'azzam Lawan, 17, have all been arrested by the police, all residents of Dorayi Charanci. ne.
Kiyawa said the arrests were the result of a joint investigation by police officers in collaboration with the DSS.
He said Suleiman pleaded guilty to hitting the late Rukayya on the head, when he visited her and attempted to steal her three cell phones while she was lying on her bed.
He also replied that he gave one friend a free phone, which he sold for N2,000, and Suleiman sold the other two for N12,000.
SP Kiyawa said they would be arraigned in court once the investigation is completed.
He added that the Commissioner of Police, Dikko, has vowed to continue cracking down on all criminals in Kano State, unless they either resign or leave the state.
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