Police operatives in Niger State have arrested a 25-year-old man, Bashir Ibrahim, for allegedly k#lling his friend — who was his best-man at his wedding last year — in Tudun-Fulani area of the state.
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The suspect was arrested on April 19, alongside his brother, Aliyu Ibrahim, 22, and one Abdullahi Garba, 22.
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According to a statement by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, “On April 12, the deceased, Hassan Shehu, 28, who was a businessman at Kure Market, Minna was invited to Tudun-fulani area of Bosso by the prime suspect for a purported business transaction.
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Unfortunately, he was allegedly st#bbed to de@th on arrival to the venue, in an apartment by the suspect who later escaped from the scene with the victim’s Peugeot 206 vehicle and about N2million there-in the vehicle. He was, however, arrested on the 19th alongside his brother, Ibrahim.
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During interrogation, the suspects confessed to the crime stating that they conspired with a 29-year-old man, Suleiman Mahmud, presently at large, to t#e the victim and dispossessed him of the money in his car, but on entering the house, the deceased str#ggled with the said Suleiman while Aliyu st#bbed the victim on the chest and was abandoned till he bled to de@th.
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A 22-year-old man, Abdullahi Garba, was equally apprehended for purchasing the victim’s phone from Aliyu at the rate of N3k with an exchange of another phone.”
