A suspect allegedly responsible for kidnapping and murdering a 13-year-old girl in Tofa Town, Kano State, has been arrested, according to the Police.
The suspect, Auwalu Abdulrashid, alias Lauje, kidnapped the teenager and took her to an uncompleted building where he slaughtered and buried her remains in a shallow grave.
The Police had received a report from the victim’s father on the 21st of June 2021 that his daughter, Zuwaira, was kidnapped, and a ransom of One Million Naira (N1,000,000.00) was demanded, but later negotiated to Four Hundred Thousand Naira (N400,000.00).
“While negotiating for the ransom, the body of the victim was discovered in an uncompleted building, slaughtered and buried in a shallow grave. On receipt of the ugly report, the body was exhumed, examined, and confirmed dead by a Medical Doctor and released to the relatives for burial according to Islamic rites,” the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, said in a statement on Tuesday.
“After I realized that she recognized me, I used a knife to slaughter her throat and buried her in a shallow grave. I demanded a ransom of One Million Naira (N1,000,000.00) and later settled at Four Hundred Thousand Naira (N400,000.00),” the suspect confessed.
Meanwhile, the Police also uncovered that the suspect was responsible for kidnapping a three-year-old brother of the victim. After he collected N100,000 as ransom, he abandoned the child at Dawanau Special Primary School, Dawakin Tofa LGA.
The suspects would be charged to court after the investigation is completed.
