Police arrest man over alleged killing of girlfriend in Kaduna

The Kaduna State Police Command said it had arrested a antheral pursuing the alleged sidesplitting of his woman successful Kaduna.

The suspect, identified arsenic Manaseh Bitrus Jatau, is being investigated implicit the decease of 35-year-old Rebecca Ojoniko Jeremiah.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Mansur Hassan, said successful a connection that Jeremiah’s lifeless assemblage was discovered connected September 5 on Mai Angwa Street, Romi, with fabric wool reportedly stuffed successful her nostrils.

He added that constabulary detectives from the Romi Outstation rushed her to St Gerald Hospital, Kakuri, wherever she was pronounced dormant by a aesculapian doctor, and her remains were deposited astatine the infirmary mortuary for autopsy.

According to the police, preliminary probe showed that Jatau was the past idiosyncratic to telephone the deceased and had allegedly invited her to conscionable him astatine Ebano Joint successful Romi.

The fishy was aboriginal traced and arrested astatine his workplace, Tomato Jos Company, successful the Maraban Jos country of Kaduna.

According to the statement, Jatau admitted during interrogation that helium had a combat with the deceased successful his country implicit a telephone telephone from different woman.

He allegedly told investigators that the altercation resulted successful her decease and that helium aboriginal dumped her assemblage successful an ...