The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Bauchi command says it arrested a 500-level student of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria, Kaduna, for allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old schoolboy to death.
NAN reports that Ilelaboye Oyejide, the NSCDC commandant, confirmed the incident on Sunday while briefing journalists in Bauchi.
Oyejide said the suspect was arrested in Misau LGA of the state.
He said the command received information that the lifeless body of Umar Usman, the deceased who was a secondary school student from Misau, was found wrapped in a white cloth and dumped at Misau bypass.
“This is a case of culpable homicide,” he said.
“He was quickly taken to the General Hospital, Misau, where he was certified dead and handed over to the family for burial.
“When we received the report, we raised high-power intelligence officers to go to Misau and investigate to bring the perpetrators to book.”
He said after a series of investigations by the operatives, Abdullahi Ibrahim, the suspect who is a 500-level student of veterinary medicine was arrested.
“We came to realise that there was a communication chat between the suspect and deceased,” Oyejide added.
“In the communication, we saw where the suspect enticed the deceased with homosexual love and showed him his naked picture.
“When the deceased went to meet him somehow he was stabbed in the stomach and wrapped in a white cloth and dumped where he was found.”
According to Oyejide, the suspect confessed to the crime during the investigation.
He said that the suspect would be charged to court, “according to his offence”.
“The suspect said that the deceased approached him with a knife and, in self-defence, there was a struggle that resulted in his stabbing the deceased to death,” he added.
“He also said that he was really afraid because it was something he had never encountered in his life.
He further said the suspect claimed that because he was afraid, he decided to wrap the body in a cloth and dump it along the bypass.
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