The Kano police command says it has arrested a 22-year-old for allegedly stabbing his mother to death
May 5, 2023 4:55 PMThe Kano police command says it has arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly stabbing his mother to death.
According to NAN, Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, the command’s spokesperson, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Friday. Haruna-Kiyawa said the suspect, Ibrahim Musa, who lives at Rimin Kebe quarters, Kano, stabbed his 50-year-old mother with a sharp knife at different parts of her body on Wednesday.On Thursday, Mohammed Usaini, the state’s commissioner of police, ordered a manhunt for the suspect, before he was arrested at “a criminal hideout” in Dawakin Tofa LGA of Kano, and confessed to the crime and dealing in illicit drugs.
“On May 4, at about 10.00 p.m., the suspect was arrested at a criminal hideout in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano,” Haruna-Kiyawa said.The commissioner of police thanked those who volunteered the information that led to the arrest and praised the tactical teams that carried out the duty. This story is published in partnership with Report for the World, a global service program that supports local public interest journalism.
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