18 Year Old Panel Beater Arrested for Killing Ex-Perm Sec
Fatiyah Abdulhakeem, an 18-year-old panel beater has been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force, Niger State Division, for allegedly killing Adamu Jagaba, a former Permanent Secretary of Niger State Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.
Fatiyah was said to have fleed with the victim’s car.
Nuhu Abubakar, an eyewitness who saw the whole incident happen said Fatiyah stabbed Adamu Jagaba in the head at Jagaba’s block-moulding industry along the Eastern Bye-Pass in Minna, the state capital.
Nuhu said, “The incident happened on Saturday. The panel beater came to the Jagaba industry to fix the car. There was no argument.
“The next thing we saw was that the panel beater entered the car and drove away while the perm sec was lying in a pool of his blood and writhing in pain.”
Police spokesperson Wasiu Abiodun said that Abdulhakeem had been in cohorts with some of Jagaba’s workers to carry out the crime. The car was successfully recovered at the arrest of Abdulhakeem.
Abiodun’s statement read, “On December 7, 2024, at about 3 pm, a report of an incident of culpable homicide was made at Tudun-Wada Division, that at about 11:30 am, a yet-to-be-identified person(s) trespassed into a block industry located along Eastern Bye-pass, Minna, attacked and stabbed one Adamu Jagaba on the head and made away with his vehicle.
“The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he gave up the ghost and was confirmed dead,” he stated, adding that police operatives visited the scene.
“Fortunately, on the local circulation of the vehicle’s details to all police points and formation within the state, on the same date at about 7 pm, the Police Crack Squad of the Command intercepted the vehicle along Bosso Estate Road, Minna, with the suspect named Fatiyah Abdulhakeem, aged 18 years of Tayi Village via Bosso Minna.
“During interrogation, the suspect confessed to being the victim’s car painter and visited him at his block industry located at Eastern Bye-pass, via Maitumbi, opposite PDP Secretariat Minna.
“He said after discussing changing the vehicle bumper, he deliberately stabbed the deceased severally on the head and neck, and also hit him multiple times with a stapler in the office and made away with his Toyota Camry vehicle with registration number MNA 61 AE.
“He confessed further that he conspired with some of the deceased’s workers, who gave him the target and more information in carrying out the crime.
“He said he has other gang members he does such heinous acts with, as he mentioned their names for investigation,” Abiodun added.
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