The Kano State Police Command has arrested an 18-year-old suspect, Abdulsamad Suleiman, for allegedly killing a housewife and stealing her mobile phones in Danbare Quarters of Kumbotso Local Government Area of the state.
Spokesperson of the Kano police, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said in a statement on Wednesday that Suleiman was arrested alongside his 17-year-old accomplice, Mu’azzam Lawan.
They were arrested following a report by a resident who returned home from work on February 12, 2022 and met his wife, Rukayya Jamilu, 21, lying motionless in a pool of her blood, and his children Anwar Jamilu, 3, and Amina Jamilu, 1, inflicted with grievous injuries.
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Kiyawa said on receipt of the report, the Kano State Commissioner of Police, CP Sama’ila Shu’aibu Dikko, raised and instructed a team of detectives led by SP Ibrahim Hamma, Divisional Police Officer, Dorayi Babba Division to proceed to the scene.
“The team moved to the scene and rushed the victims to Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital Kano where the housewife was examined and confirmed dead by Medical Doctor and the two other victims admitted.
“Investigations conducted by the command’s Criminal Investigation Department and DSS led to the arrest of the principal suspect, one Abdulsamad Suleiman, ‘m’, 18 years old, of Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters, Gwale LGA Kano State and his accomplice, one Mu’azzam Lawan, ‘m’, 17 years old of the same address.”
He said “the principal suspect confessed that on 12/02/2022 at about 1600hrs, he went to the house of the deceased as his relative and met her on the bed. After he greeted her, he saw three mobile phones and took them.
“Having realized that she had recognized him, he used a wooden-made pestle and repeatedly hit her on her head and also hit her two children and left with the mobile phones.
“He further confessed that he gave one of the mobile phones to his friend and sold the other two at N12,000.
“His friend was arrested and also confessed to having sold the mobile phone given to him belonging to the deceased at N2,000.
“The case will be charged to court upon completion of the investigation.”
