Police probe killing of businessman, abduction of wife in Kebbi

Kebbi State Police Command has launched an probe into the sidesplitting of a 35-year-old antheral and the abduction of his woman successful the Badariya country of Birnin Kebbi successful the aboriginal hours of Friday.

Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bashir Usman, said successful a connection that the victim, identified arsenic Sufiyanu Garba, was attacked astatine his residence by suspected criminals.

Detectives were promptly dispatched to the country to statesman investigations.

“The unfortunate was rushed to Sir Yahaya Memorial Hospital, Birnin Kebbi, wherever a aesculapian doc confirmed him dead.

His remains person since been deposited astatine the hospital’s mortuary,” Usman said.

He added that the Kebbi Commissioner of Police had directed the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, to instrumentality implicit the lawsuit to guarantee the harmless rescue of the abducted pistillate and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Usman besides urged residents to promptly study suspicious movements and exigency situations to alteration a swift constabulary response.

Mohammed Yauri, a elder member of the abducted woman, Zainab Mohammed Yauri, confirmed to Channels Television that gunmen stormed the house, changeable Garba, and took his woman to an chartless location.

Garba was buried aboriginal connected Friday astatine the Birnin Kebbi main cemetery according to Islamic rites.

The incidental comes amid heightened information concerns successful the region, foll...