No fewer than two persons have been arrested by the operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command for allegedly locking up their 35-year-old cousin and starving him to death over allegations of witchcraft.
According to acting commissioner Shettima Muhammad, police received information on November 30 that the deceased, Mohammed Sani, had his hands and legs tied and locked in his room where he was starved to death, adding the family hurriedly buried Sani’s remains, but that investigations were ongoing to arrest others involved in the crime.
Muhammad also said that the two arrested suspects denied their involvement, claiming that they only participated in the burial after discovering Sani’s decomposing body in his room.
Similarly, the commissioner of police said no fewer than 16 suspects arrested between October and November for various crimes across the state were on Monday paraded at the Police headquarters in the state.
Muhammad, while parading the suspects, disclosed that 10 of the suspects were arrested for armed robbery, five for kidnapping and one for defilement, adding that police also recovered seven firearms and 27 rounds of live ammunition from the suspects.
On the case of defilement, Muhammad said the suspect, 21-year-old Habu Yusuf, was arrested on October 31 for allegedly defiling a five-year-old girl.
He said the victim’s mother reported the case to the police on the fateful day when she found her daughter walking abnormally.
“Preliminary investigation showed that the suspect had also sexually molested two of his elder brother’s children, aged eight and 10 years, before nemesis caught up with him,” Muhammad added.