The Katsina State Police Command on Monday paraded a 17-year-old boy, Abdulrahman Ibrahim for allegedly killing a phone dealer in Katsina metropolis.
According to the command’s spokesman, CSP Gambo Isah, nemesis caught up with the suspect after he lured the phone dealer into an uncompleted building at Modoji area, Katsina and stabbed him on the neck with a knife, killing him eventually.
Abdulrahman Ibrahim in an interview with newsmen alleged that he killed the man in “self-defence”.
According to him, “I killed him when he wanted to kill me and wounded me in the hand.”
In a related development, CSP Gambo said police operatives from the command raided some criminal hideouts within the state metropolis and arrested 72 suspected social miscreants, popularly referred to as Kauraye in Hausa with a knack for phone snatching.
According to CSP Gambo, the areas raided include: Sabuwar Unguwa, Gadar Nayalli, Modoji, Tudun YanLihida, Kwabren Dorawa, Janbango, Abbatuwa, Filin Canada, Lambun Dankwai, Kofar Marusa, Tsalawa, and Chake among others.
The Command expressed its appreciation to members of the general public for their unflinching support to the Police and other sister security agencies in the state, urging them to always report any suspicious person or group to the police through the following emergency lines: 08156977777, 09053872247.
