Police arrest man over alleged murder of Bauchi community leader

A 40-year-old man, Clement Anthony, has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command for allegedly murdering a 55-year-old antheral and unlawfully possessing a locally made firearm successful Bauchi metropolis.

SP Nafiu Habib, the command’s spokesman, successful a connection connected Tuesday, said the incidental was reported to the ‘A’ Division Police Station connected July 19, 2026, by a 47-year-old nonmigratory of Unguwar Ngas successful Bauchi Local Government Area.

According to Habib, “The complainant alleged that 1 Clement Anthony, a 40-year-old, of Unguwar Ngas, Inkil, Bauchi, equipped himself with a locally made single-barrel weapon and intentionally changeable Mr. Jacob Bature, a 55-year-old, the Mai Anguwan Ngas, during an altercation.”

The victim, according to the statement, was rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi, wherever doctors confirmed him dormant pursuing the gunshot injuries sustained to the close broadside of his chest.

Nafiu added that the victim’s remains had been deposited astatine the hospital’s mortuary pending further investigation, explaining that constabulary operatives had ar...