Gombe State Police Command has paraded 18-year-old Mustapha Isah, over the killing of a 58-year-old mother of eight, Aishatu Abdullahi.
Gatekeepers News reports that Aishatu’s gruesome murder was made public by the command on Saturday.
The Public Relations Officer, Mahid Abubakar, said the command received a complaint at Pantami Division from Muhammad Abdullahi, aged 45, who reported that his mother, Aishatu Abdullahi, was slaughtered with a knife by an unknown person.
Abubakar noted that upon receipt of the complaint, police operatives went to the scene where Aishatu was found in a pool of blood, and was immediately rushed to the hospital but declared dead by a medical doctor at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe.
He said, “During the investigation, the suspect confessed to sneaking into Aishatu Abdullahi’s room in search of his spanner, which she had seized from him.
“The suspect also mentioned an accomplice, Idris Abubakar Danjauro, male, aged 17 years, who joined him in the room to carry out the act. Idris was also arrested but denied knowledge of who killed Aishatu during the interrogation.
“The suspect mentioned that Aishatu returned from the neighbours, found him in her room, and questioned him. He refused to leave, resulting in him attacking her, strangling her, and killing her with a knife and escaped through the toilet to an unknown destination, leaving behind his stained shirt and knife but managed to escape with the Spanner which was later recovered from him.”
Abubakar noted that eyewitnesses explained that at the time of the incident when Aishatu was screaming for help they were together with Idris who assisted in calling the relatives of the deceased on the phone but they were not reachable.
He said, “The suspect also confirmed to have committed the act alone without support from Idris stating that he only mentioned Idris because he had caused him to be sacked from the garage where they were working together, leaving him unemployed for a year. The spanner, blood-stained shirt, and knife were recovered as exhibits.”
