- The spokesman of the command, ASC Badaruddeen Muhammad, disclosed the development in a statement issued to newsmen in Dutse, the state capital.
Two men have been arrested in Jigawa state for kidnapping and killing one Tahir Adamu Hassan.
Tahir of Gida Dubu Yadi, Dutse LGA, was allegedly murdered by his friends Hamim Auwalu, 26, and Ashiru Muhammad, 24.
The suspects were apprehended by operatives of the Jigawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) after a complaint was lodged by the deceased father.
The spokesman of the command, ASC Badaruddeen Muhammad, disclosed the development in a statement issued to newsmen in Dutse, the state capital.
According to Muhammad, the late Tahir’s father that his son was missing at the NSCDC Divisional Office, Dutse, on Saturday, March 2, 2024.
Muhammad said the deceased father stated that he left home and didn’t return. However, before leaving home, he told his mother that he was going to his friend’s shop to do some carpentry work for him.
However, all efforts to reach him via his phone did not yield any result, as the phone was switched off.
Upon receipt of the information, NSCDC personnel swung into action, tracked down the friends who called him and brought them to the command for interrogation.
He said that upon interrogation, the suspects confessed to killing their friend.
According to suspects’ confession, they planned to kidnap him and contact his family for ransom after knowing that his retired father had received his retirement benefits.
However, they took him to a Pure Water Factory (MJ Namaliya) at the same address, but later they realised their mistake and decided to kill him to avoid being arrested afterwards. They allegedly used an axe and stones to kill him and thereafter buried his remains in the table water factory.
Subsequently, on March 6, 2024, the NSCDC investigation team, drawn from the Intelligence and Investigation and Medical units, as well as medical personnel from Rasheed Shekoni Teaching Hospital Dutse and the relatives of the victim, went to the crime scene, where the body was exhumed.
But before the body was handed over to the family for burial, it was taken to Rasheed Shekoni Teaching Hospital Dutse for full-scale medical examinations to ascertain the true cause of his death.
The suspects have been arraigned in court for prosecution