Police parade 17 restive youths over another’s death in Niger
The Niger State Police Command has arrested 17 restive youths after the death of one Ashiru Tofa of the Limawa area of Minna, the state capital.
The command, in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Wasiu Abiodun in Minna, said the suspects were arrested over the death of one of the youths stabbed during their clash.
It stated, “some miscreants of Ogbomosho street, Angwan-Daji and Limawa area of Minna, on 05 of November, 2022 engaged themselves in a fight with dangerous weapons, and as a result, one Ashiru Tofa of Limawa area was stabbed to death.”
The command revealed that following the development, police operatives attached to ‘A’ Division Minna swung to action and arrested a notorious handset snatcher/thug, 22-year-old Umar Aminu, a.k.a Ogobin of Limawa, that led to the arrest of the 17 suspects involved in the crisis.
The statement stated that Ogobin assisted the police in identifying the 17 other miscreants during a house-to-house raid in the Minna metropolis.
The suspects include Naziru Rabiu (a.k.a Bush) 20yrs, Musa Suleiman 23yrs, Nuhu Saidu 19yrs, Bashir Mohammed 17yrs, Mohammed Gadafi 19yrs, Salim Umar 24yrs, Abdullahi Abubakar 19yrs, Musa Abubakar 20yrs of Limawa, Hassan Mohammed 19yrs, Umar Suleiman 19yrs, Musa Saidu 19yrs, Abdullahi Musa 19yrs and Abubakar Sadiq Mohammed 17yrs all of the Limawa area.
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