A 17-year-old Senior Secondary Student, Abdulrahman Ibrahim, has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing a phone dealer to death in Katsina State.
Ibrahim was among the 74 suspects paraded on Monday at the headquarters of the Katsina State Police Command.
The State Police spokesman, CSP Gambo Isah, said the teenager, Ibrahim, of Kofar Sauri quarters, Katsina, was arrested on April 21, 2023, shortly after he lured a phone dealer to the Modoji area of the town “where he attacked and stabbed him with a knife on his neck.”
Ibrahim told journalists in an interview that he killed the victim “in self-defence.”
“I killed him when he wanted to kill me and wounded me in the hand,” he told journalists in the Hausa language.
The police further disclosed that 20-year-old man, Buhari Dahiru of Central quarters, Sabon Garin, Daura, was arrested after he had broken into the house of one Murtala Abdullahi also in Daura, attacked his pregnant wife with a knife, and attempted to rape her.
The police added that Dahiru, described as a serial rapist, before his arrest had attacked, robbed, and raped two housewives also in Daura.
Dahiru did not deny the allegation during an interview with journalists.
A total of 74 suspects were paraded on Monday for various offences including being informants to bandits, dealing in hard drugs, phone snatching and prostitution.
The police spokesman said the suspects were arrested during recent police raids of some black spots in different parts of the state.
Isah said, “The command has carried out raids in several locations within the Katsina metropolitan area, which include Sabuwar Unguwar; Gadar Nayali, Modoji, Tundun Yanlihidda’Kwabren Dorawa, Janbango, Abbatuwa, Filin Canada, Lambun Dan Lawai, Kofar Marusa, Tsalawa, Chake and Tunas (Ingawa Local Government Area), among others, and succeeded in arresting 74 suspects.”
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