Report from Kaduna State, North West Nigeria says, Police have arrested two persons for attempt to commit culpable homicide by burying alive their victim.
A statement by PPRO, Kaduna state Police Command, ASP Mansir Hassan says, the arrest follows a video that went viral on the internet showing a person buried with only his head left out.
“Immediately the Police got wind of the video, efforts were made to locate the victim and possibly arrest the culprits which yielded desired results as the victim one Abubakar Aliyu 20 years old of Gauraki village under Kufena ward Zaria was traced.
“Equally, two culpable suspects Yahaya AbdulKadir 24 years old and Abdullahi AbdulKadir 18 years old all of Gauraki village under Kufena ward Zaria, were arrested in connection to the dastardly act of burying the victim alive,” Hassan said.
According to him, preliminary inquiry reveals that both the victim Abubakar Aliyu and the suspects Yahaya AbdulKadir and Abdullahi AbdulKadir with others were working as laborers at a building construction site in Abuja when the phone handset of Abdullahi AbdulKadir valued at thirty five thousand naira (N35,000:00) got stolen at where they were lodged.
Abubakar Aliyu the victim of the burial incident was alleged to be the culprit of the stolen handset thus, it was resolved among the labourers that Abubakar Aliyu’s daily wages will be used to buy another phone as replacement for Abdullahi AbdulKadir.
Abubakar Aliyu piqued by the resolution left Abuja and returned home. However, he was trailed to Zaria by the duo of Yahaya AbdulKadir and Abdullahi AbdulKadir who happened to be siblings.
On Saturday 10th August, 2024, the two of them located him and forcefully took him to an uncompleted building, dug the ground akin to a grave, bound his hands and feet, covered his mouth with a piece of clothing, placed him inside the hole and returned the earth leaving only his head outside.
They left their victim Abubakar Aliyu in the said condition until when a passerby heard his groans and alerted the public before he was rescued. The two suspects Yahaya AbdulKadir and Abdullahi AbdulKadir were later arrested by the Police and they admitted to have committed the act as a form of interrogation in connection with the stolen GSM handset.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police Kaduna State Command, CP A.D. Ali, psc while warning the general public against jungle justice by taking the law into their own hands said, the case will be carefully investigated and the outcome of the report will be handled professionally.
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