The Kano State Police Command has arrested two suspects over the murder of 22-year-old Ahmad Abubakar Idris, a 300 level student of the Kano University of Science and Technology (KUST), Njenje Media News reports.
Police spokesman, Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said the deceased was found dead five days after he was reported missing.
According to Kiyawa, the 22-year-old student of the Department of Physics was discovered missing on Saturday, May 1, 2021, when he left the campus with two colleagues to a market in Kano (Farm Centre) to buy a mobile phone.
He said the commissioner of police in the state, CP Sama’ila Dikko, had ordered the case to be transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department, Bompai for further investigation.
In his words:
“ Abubakar’s father, Mr. Idris had sent him some money to purchase a mobile phone for his brother.
“The deceased was suspected to have been killed by the culprits because of the money in his possession.
“His corpse was discovered at a sand excavation site in Mariri at the outskirts of Kano after police arrested one of the colleagues who was with him before he went missing.
“We are currently carrying out an investigation into the matter and justice will be served,” he said.
