Bauchi State Police operatives attached to Operation Restore Peace (ORP) have arrested three hoodlums namely Arinze Prince, Tobi Abubakar, and Daniel Friday for trespassing into the house of one Maxwell Meshach of Yelwa and threatening to deprive him of his life with dangerous weapons.
According to a press release on Friday, 21st April 2023 signed by the Bauchi State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, said that police operatives while acting on credible Intelligence stormed into the suspected criminal’s hideout situated at Yelwan Makaranta and arrested the trio.
During the arrest, the following exhibits were recovered; One locally made pistol with two rounds of live ammunition; one toy pistol; one machete, six cartridges, four laptops, one laptop charger, one laptop battery, five Android phones with one keypad phone, one power bank, one mp3 headphone, seeds suspected to be cannabis sativa seeds, three bunkers for smoking ice cocaine, black powder, and five wristwatches.
In another development, on Wednesday, 5 April 2023, one Ibrahim Umar of Kangere ward, Bauchi LGA came to A Divisional Headquarters and reported his younger brother, one Muhammad Tukur of the same address an Okada rider (Dan Achaba), missing.
“Upon receiving the report, particulars of the missing person were obtained and disseminated to the various areas within Bauchi and beyond.
“Subsequently, on Sunday, 9th April 2023, information was received from Maina-Maji Divisional Headquarters that a decomposed male corpse was sighted at Shinge village forest, Alkaleri LGA which was later identified to be the missing person.
“During the Investigation, it was revealed that one Hashimu Adamu aged 22yrs of Badaqoshi village Alkaleri LGA, and Anas Muhammed aged 23yrs of Kangere ward, Bauchi were the last passenger sighted with the Okada ridder heading to Badaqoshi village.
“Consequently, detectives attached to the Command swiftly swung into action and arrested the aforesaid passengers for interrogation.
“During the interrogation, the suspects confessed that on Tuesday, 4th April 2023, they criminally conspired amongst themselves to lure Muhammad Tukur “Okada man” now deceased to take them to Badaqoshi village Alkaleri LGA, on reaching Shinge village, they stabbed him on his abdomen with a sharp knife afterward slaughter him and abandoned the dead body therein and made away with his Bajaj motorcycle.
“Coroner’s Form C has complied and the dead body has been evacuated to ATBUTH Teaching Hospital Bauchi for examination and has been confirmed dead by the Medical Practitioner, the statement said.
The exhibit recovered from the suspects includes one Boxer Bajaj Motorcycle red in colour.
