By Miriam Humbe
The duo of Abubakar Ibrahim and Isah Ayuba both males of Shember village of Agwatashi, Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State have been arrested by Police detectives attached to Obi Division investigation for abduction and subsequent killing of one Felicia Namkywa, a petty trader, following a painstaking investigation.
DSP Rahman Nansel, the
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), disclosed this in a statement signed for the Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State Command on Sunday.
The arrest followed a complaint lodged at Obi Divisional Police Headquarters that the trader has been missing for days, and all efforts to trace her whereabouts proved abortive.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the victim was lured via phone call by one of the suspects, Abubakar Ibrahim who was owing her the sum of Forty Thousand Naira (N40,000) and beckoned on her to come and purchase grains in one of the Fulani settlements (Ruga) of the area; unknown to her that there was a sinister plan to take her life and dispossess her of her business capital.
The suspects upon interrogation confessed to having lured and abducted the victim, took her deep into the forest where she was strangled to death and her remains dumped in a swamp, and took away the sum of five hundred and fifty-five thousand Naira that was found on the victim.
The suspects subsequently led the police operatives to the scene where the decayed remains of the victim were recovered.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Umar Shehu Nadada, has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of State Criminal Investigation Department to swiftly conclude the investigation and charge the suspects to Court for immediate prosecution.
He further extended his condolences to the family of the victim and urged them to be calm while assuring them that justice would be served.
