A vigilante by the name of Yahaya Mohammed has killed a commercial motorcycle rider and robbed the deceased of the okada.
The incident happened in Niger where Muhammed was paraded on Monday at the State Police command after his arrest.
The suspect was shown to the press alongside 37 others allegedly involved in various crimes.
Speaking during the exercise, spokesman for the command, Abiodun Wasiu, said investigation into the crime is underway.
“Police received information of a lifeless body with a slit throat in a pool of his blood at Shabalile area of Mokwa. Police operatives led by DPO Mokwa Division mobilized to the scene and evacuated the corpse to the hospital morgue.
“In the course of investigation, on 2/10/2023 at about 1130hrs, a Bajaj motorcycle suspected to have been robbed from the deceased was recovered from an uncompleted building in Mokwa, while the investigation led to the arrest of one Usman Yahaya Muhammed 20yrs of Kinboku-Kudu village of Mokwa.
“During interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime and said he boarded the motorcycle to Eppa village and while on their way, he stopped the rider and macheted him to death.
“He abandoned the corpse and took the motorcycle away. Case under investigation at SCID Minna,” Wasiu stated.
