The State’s Police Public Relations Officer Wasiu Abiodun, in a statement on Friday, said the girl was killed at her parents' residence on 5 June, when her mother went to the market.
Police Command has arrested Nuhu Mohammed, 26, and Sani Usman, 22, of Izom town, Gurara Local Government, for alleged criminal conspiracy and killing of a 14-year-old secondary school pupil, Ubaida Surajo.
Mr Abiodun said one of the suspects, Mr Mohammed, who was a tenant in the same house, confessed during the police interrogation that in the early hours of the same day, the deceased mother accused him of stealing her N90,000, saying that the accusation got him angry, and he decided to kill the girl. The suspects reportedly left the scene and locked the house gate from the outside. When the girl’s mother came back, he found the victim lifeless.
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