Police in Bauchi State have arrested a suspect for allegedly removing a 25-year-old man’s hand and stabbing him in the head.
Ahmed Wakil, the state Police Public Relations Officer, said in a statement on Friday that the suspect had been on the command’s wanted list for two years for thuggery and causing grievous harm. He claimed the suspect committed the crime alongside two others who are still at large.
He noted that his good fortune ran out when a police patrol team raided a black spot in a Bauchi suburb and arrested him.
The statement read, “On Saturday, July 22, 2023 at about 6.30pm, police operatives attached to ‘C’ Divisional Headquarters, while on a visibility policing patrol, identified and raided a black spot located at Sabon Layi, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis which led to the arrest of one Muhammad Abdullahi, aka Luwawu, male, of the same address.
“He has been on the police watch list since 2021 for alleged criminal conspiracy, thuggery, causing grievous hurt and attempting to commit an offence to wit culpable homicide.
“Sometime in 2021, the suspect criminally conspired with Sani Danfada, male, Manu Maidawa and two others, now at large, all of the same address, while armed with machetes and other deadly weapons attacked and stabbed one Mubarak Abdullahi, male (25) of Unguwan Sarakuna area on his head and cut off his left hand from the Articulatio radiocarpalis.”
He stated that the investigation revealed that the suspects committed the alleged crime, and that Abdullahi confessed to committing it during interrogation.”
He also stated that efforts were being made to locate the remaining suspects, after which they would be charged in court.
Similarly, the PPRO reported that detectives assigned to the ‘C’ divisional police headquarters apprehended six suspected Sara-Suka thugs.
He claimed that they were apprehended on Sunday, July 23, 2023, around 7.30 p.m., while raiding a criminal hideout in Nasarawan Madina Quarters, Bauchi.
According to him, preliminary investigations revealed that “the suspects are into armed robbery and acts of thuggery.”
He stated that exhibits recovered from them included one long knife and some dry leaves suspected to be cannabis sativa, also known as Indian hemp, and that the suspects confessed to the crime during interrogation.
