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The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old man, Mohammed Abba Yahaya, for assaulting a 400-level scholar of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida College (IBBU), Lapai.
The spokesperson of the command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, who confirmed the incident stated the suspect was arrested by police operatives hooked up to the Chanchaga Division in Minna on June 30, 2024, for legal drive and assault towards the sufferer, Hussena Sani, who’s his ex-girlfriend.
“On 29/6/2024 at about 1630hrs, a case of legal drive and assault, inflicting harm, was reported at Chanchaga Division towards the suspect, one Mohammed Abba Yahaya, 26, of Tungan-goro, Minna. At about 2100hrs, he assaulted one Hussena Sani, 25, of the identical space, and inflicted severe harm on her,” the PPRO stated.
Yahaya claimed that he noticed his feminine buddy, Hussena Sani, being dropped off by a automobile at Tungan-goro and, upon inquiring concerning the driver, didn’t obtain a passable response.
An argument ensued, resulting in a bodily altercation wherein Yahaya punched Sani within the face.
The sufferer was taken to the hospital for medical remedy, whereas the suspect has been transferred to the State Headquarters of the Niger State Police Command in Minna for additional investigation and prosecution.
Nonetheless, in a swift response, the sufferer debunked the suspect’s confessional assertion to police investigators, although she confirmed that Yahaya was her former boyfriend.
Sani, whose eyes had been swollen and tightly closed, seemingly as a result of beating by Yahaya, recounted her ordeal.
She defined that the incident occurred on Saturday, 29/6/2024, at about 2100 hrs after she had seen off a customer in his non-public automotive close to her residence.
Sani said that Yahaya, who noticed her alight from the customer’s automotive, angrily approached her and demanded to know the id of the automotive proprietor and her relationship with him.
When she replied that it was none of his enterprise, he slapped her, adopted by heavy blows to her face and physique, inflicting her to fall to the bottom with one eye bleeding profusely.
She additional defined that Yahaya, upon realizing she was struggling in ache and crying for assist, forcefully took her iPhone/Android cellphone and fled.
Sani managed to stroll slowly, holding her left eye, in direction of Yahaya’s home to report the incident to his dad and mom.
Yahaya accosted her once more, hitting her on the remaining eye.
She shouted at him, “Do you continue to need to kill me?” Yahaya responded that she was fortunate he wasn’t carrying a knife, or he would have stabbed her to loss of life.
Sani was later rushed to Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida Specialist Hospital in Chanchaga, Minna, for pressing medical consideration and was subsequently referred to eye specialists at Minna Basic Hospital.
She has began responding to remedy, although she nonetheless can’t see with one in every of her eyes as of Thursday, July 4.
In the meantime, Hajiya Fatima, Sani’s mom, in a quick interview with the Nigerian Tribune, described the accidents suffered by her daughter from her former boyfriend as unacceptable, depraved, and ill-treatment.
She despatched a passionate attraction to the Niger State Authorities and the State Police Command to make sure that Yahaya is held accountable for his alleged dastardly acts.
The visibly distraught mom, who was crying all through the interview, stated her daughter’s precarious well being situation was an ideal concern.
She added that Sani was imagined to have returned to the college for the continuation of her tutorial program since final weekend, previous to the unlucky incident.
Hajiya Fatima described the suspect as a brute, heartless, and a thief for snatching her daughter’s cellphone after inflicting severe accidents on her.
She advocated for justice towards Yahaya and a severe penalty to function a deterrent to others.
She expressed appreciation to the Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, CP Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamman, and his officers for the instant arrest, detention, and investigation of the suspect, with plans for his prosecution upon completion of the investigation.
Fatima expressed fears that her daughter could also be left with a everlasting scar and trauma from the incident, emphasizing that justice have to be served.
