A 17-year-old Senior Secondary Scholar in Katsina State, Abdulrahman Ibrahim, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing a person after he had snatched the deceased’s telephone.
Ibrahim was among the many 74 suspects paraded on Monday on the headquarters of the Katsina State Police Command.
Additionally paraded was a 20-year-old man, Buhari Dahiru, described as a serial rapist.
The police mentioned {the teenager}, Ibrahim, of Kofar Sauri quarters, Katsina, was arrested on April 21, 2023, shortly after he lured a telephone seller to the Modoji space of the city “the place he attacked and stabbed him with a knife on his neck.”
Ibrahim instructed journalists in an interview that he killed the sufferer “in self-defence.”
“I killed him when he wished to kill me and wounded me within the hand,” he instructed journalists within the Hausa language.
The police additional disclosed that Dahiru of Central quarters, Sabon Garin, Daura, was arrested after he had damaged into the home of 1 Murtala Abdullahi additionally in Daura, attacked his pregnant spouse with a knife and tried to rape her.
The police added that Dahiru had earlier than his arrest, attacked, robbed and raped two housewives additionally in Daura.
Dahiru didn’t deny the allegation throughout an interview with journalists.
A complete of 74 suspects have been paraded on Monday for numerous offences together with being informants to bandits, dealing in laborious medication, telephone snatching and prostitution.
The command’s spokesman, CSP Gambo Isah, mentioned the suspects have been arrested throughout current police raids of some black spots in several components of the state.
“The command has carried out raids in a number of places throughout the Katsina metropolitan space, which embrace Sabuwar Unguwar; Gadar Nayali, Modoji, Tundun Yanlihidda’Kwabren Dorawa, Janbango, Abbatuwa, Filin Canada, Lambun Dan Lawai, Kofar Marusa, Tsalawa, Chake and Tunas (Ingawa Native Authorities Space), amongst others, and succeeded in arresting 74 suspects,” he mentioned.