News Editor
By David Odama
Detectives of the Nigeria police of Nasarawa State Command attached to the Obi Divisional Headquarters in Nasarawa state have arrested two suspects, Abubakar Ibrahim and Isah Ayuba of Shember village in Agwatashi, Obi Local Government Area of the state for alleged Abduction and killing of a 45 years old one Felicia Namkywa
The arrest according to a statement issued by the Public are lions Officer of the Command in Lafia and made available to tms news was sequel to complaint lodged at Obi Divisional Police Headquarters that the trader has been missing for days, and all efforts to trace her whereabouts proved abortive.
According to the statement, preliminary investigation has revealed that the victim was lured via phone call by one of the suspects, Abubakar Ibrahim who was owing his victim the sum of Forty thousand Naira (N40,000) and beckoned on her to come and purchase grains in one of the Fulani settlements, Ruga area;
The statement added that unknown to Mrs Felicia, a mother of five and a petty traders’ abductors were arrested following a painstaking investigation.
“Felicia was lured by her abductors unknown to her that there as a sinister plan to take her life and dispossess her of her business capital”.
“The suspects upon interrogation confessed to having lured and abducted the victim, took her deep into the forest where she was straggled to death and her remains dumped in a swamp and took away the sum of five hundred and fifty-five thousand Naira that was found on the victim”
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“The suspects subsequently led the police operatives to the scene where the decayed remains of the late Felicia were recovered”, the statement added.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, Umar Shehu Nadada, has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of State Criminal Investigation Department to swiftly conclude the investigation and charge the suspects to court for immediate prosecution.
CP Nadada who further extended his condolences to the family of the victim, urged them to be calm while assuring that justice would be served.
