The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has arrested two suspects in the Obi Local Government Area of the state over an alleged case of abduction and culpable homicide.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Ramhan Nansel, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Lafia, the state capital, on Sunday.
According to him, the suspects, Abubakar Ibrahim and Isah Ayuba, are being investigated by officers of the command for allegedly kidnapping a lady named Felicia Namkywa and subsequently killing her.
While noting that the suspects were tracked down following painstaking efforts by its personnel, Nansel said the suspects confessed to having lured the victim into a forest where she was strangled to death.
The statement read, “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 the Obi Division. Investigation for abduction and subsequent killing of one Felicia Namkywa, a petty trader following a painstaking investigation [sic].
“The arrest was sequel to a complaint lodged at the Obi Divisional Police Headquarters that the trader had 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 owed her the sum of Forty thousand Nnaira (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 N555,000 that was found on the victim.”
The statement added that the suspects “subsequently led the police operatives to the scene where the decayed remains of the victim were recovered.”
Nansel added that the State Commissioner of Police, Umar Nadada, had ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department to swiftly conclude the investigation and charge the suspects to court for immediate prosecution.
He noted that the CP extended his condolences to the family of the victim and urged them to be calm while assuring them that justice would be served.
