Recently the shocking story of how a cattle merchant was beheaded by some of his associates came to light. This is how sun news reported the incidence.
There is no art to read the minds construction in the face, so says Williams Shakespeare. The Holy books also says the heart of man is desperately wicked who can understand it. How else can one describes the evil that happened in Toro, the headquarters of Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State upon discovery of the beheaded body of a well know cattle rearer in the sleepy town
As the story goes, the cattle merchant went to Njama village on what was supposed to be a business trip but did not return home only for the police to discover his headless body buried in a shallow grave somewhere.
The merchant, according to the Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikechukwu Ayo Aduba, was lured to Njama by his close friends to buy Cows.
Aduba said the unsuspecting victim went for the deal with a sum of N300, 000.
The close associates were said to have
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lured him by telling him that the supposed cattle dealer was unavailable for the transaction but left a message that he should come back the following day for the deal to be completed.
Aduba informed that on their way back to Toro, the evil friends ambushed the cattle merchant, robbed him and "apparently in a bid to disguise the robbery as a ritual killing, his head was decapitated with several matchete cuts, his eyes gorged out after which his headless corpse was buried in a shallow grave."
The police boss stated that acting on a tip-off, a team of detectives from the state command’s monitoring unit was detailed to unravel the circumstances surrounding the brutal killing of the cattle merchant.
The team promptly swung into action and arrested five suspects, who, Aduba said, "had all made useful statements to the police outlining their different roles in the most brutish act, while a cash sum of N108, 000 was recovered from one of the suspects."
While saying that investigation into the case was still going on, the police commissioner assured that all the culprits would not go scot-free as they would be made to face the full wrath of the law with a view to serving as a deterrent to others who might have had such plans.
But the suspects while being paraded by the police claimed innocence of the offence, saying they knew nothing about the crime. The friend who allegedly lured the deceased out to his death, Yelwa Mohammed, claimed he was not involved in the murder of his friend, saying that he felt bad about his death.
Mohammed added that no kobo was found on him, adding that, "I knew nothing about this crime. My friend went to buy cow. I was at home when he was killed. I was going to the market when the police came to arrest me. I am innocent."
His innocence or otherwise and that of other four suspects is for the police to fully investigated and prove to be so or not.
In a related development, the police command made a harvest of arrest of other criminals, apart from the five suspected killers of the cattle merchant, in its continued efforts at stamping out criminality in the state, which Aduba noted was made possible through the more galvanised intelligence unit. Fourteen (14) armed youths from neighbouring Gombe State who were in Bauchi to effect the arrest of a supposed murderer who fled from Gombe State to take refuge in Bauchi were arrested by the Military/Police Joint Task Force.
Items recovered from them, according to the commissioner of police were: four machetes; two daggers; one shovel; one piston and three javelin poles.
In another arrest, detectives from the Housing Estate Divisional Police headquarters in Bauchi picked up a man who had been parading himself variously as an inspector of police and prison officer and going about to extort money from unsuspecting patent medicine dealers within the area of jurisdiction of the police division. Two identification cards and a rubber solution were recovered from the suspect.
According to the state police commissioner, "detectives from Zaki divisional headquarters in conjunction with a team of Military/Police Joint Task Force acting on information, sequel to a report made by a staff of a corporate organisation, Inter-Food Distribution Co. Ltd, to the effect that he was robbed and beaten up by four men led by the dismissed driver of the company along the lonely Zaki highway, successfully arrested four suspects all dressed up in the full uniform of Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIOs)."
Items recovered from the suspects were a Toyota car with the registration number Lagos AP 571 AGL, two cutlasses and a dagger. The police boss said that the suspects would be made to face the full wraths of the law on completion of investigation.
Meanwhile, the police commissioner has solicited for information from
members of the public with a view to assisting the police in carrying out their jobs of effectively policing the society, noting that the police were no magicians to curb crimes without help from the people.
"Security is everyone’s business and it takes the concerted efforts of the police and the generality of the public to police a community. The police force has no magic wand and to this extent, we have often enjoined members of the public to feed us with necessary information
as regards the suspicious movement of people within their community,"Aduba declared.
He, therefore called for the support of the people of Bauchi State, community leaders as well as religious leaders in the state, noting that they were "joint stakeholders in the security of the nation."
Source.........Daily Sun newspaper
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