AISHA ABUBAKAR
A 27-year-old houseboy, Munkaila Ado, is in trouble after he allegedly impregnated his boss’ 13-year old daughter, connived with the girl’s mother to abort the pregnancy and murdered her in the process.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened in Bauchi State, where the suspect, Ado, resides with the family.
Apart from killing the victim by strangling her, they burnt her corpse, buried her charred body in a shallow grave and escaped before they were later exposed.
The house boy, Ado, has been arrested alongside his two other accomplices over the gruesome murder of the victim.
This was disclosed by the spokesperson of the Police Command in Bauchi, SP Ahmed Wakil, who confirmed that the suspect and two other suspects including a woman, who administered the abortion substance were also arrested for conspiracy.
SP Wakil stated that after successfully aborting the four-month-old pregnancy, the suspect and his friend strangled the victim, burnt her body beyond recognition and buried her in a shallow grave in a nearby bush.
He further stated that the murder got exposed after the teenager’s father, discovered that his daughter was missing and suspected his houseboy and his accomplice. He reported the matter to the Alkaleri Divisional Police Headquarters.
“On 10/08/2022 at about 0900hrs, One Alhaji Danladi Mohammed ‘m’ of Mai’ari Arewa village Pali, lodged a formal complaint at the Divisional Police Headquarters Alkaleri that, on 04/08/2022 his biological daughter one Safiya Alhaji Danladi ‘f’ aged 13yrs of the same address left home suspected missing and that he strongly suspected his house boy one Munkaila Ado ‘m’ aged 27yrs and one Muazu Umaru aged 35yrs all of the same address to be the principal suspects on the whereabouts of his missing daughter,” the statement read.
“On the strength of that, preliminary investigation commenced, the scene was visited operatives led by DPO Alkaleri and evacuated the victim to General Hospital, Alkaleri, where she was certified dead by a Medical Doctor.”
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that the missing girl was his girlfriend, who was four-month pregnant to the knowledge of her mother but unknown to the father, Alhaji Danladi Mohammed.”
“He further revealed that he conspired with the mother of the missing girl and his accomplice, Muazu Umar, took the victim to Gombe to procure an abortion. Thereafter on reaching Gombe, the victim was led to one Hajiya Amina Abubakar ‘f’ 50yr-old house in Jekada Fari behind specialist hospital in Gombe, where the victim was administered with some substances to cause miscarriage.”
“Eventually on their way to mai’ari village along Akko LGA, Gombe State, the two aforementioned suspects strangulated the victim. Consequently, the victim fell unconscious and gave up the ghost. In the same vein, they burnt the body of the victim beyond recognition and buried her in a shallow grave at a nearby bush in Akko LGA, Gombe State.”
“Meanwhile, the two aforesaid suspects were arrested despite violating the human rights and dignity of the girl child.
The Command assured that the general public will continue to be updated as the investigation unfolds.
The Commissioner of Police Bauchi State Command, CP Umar Mamman Sanda, has directed that the case be transferred to SCID for discreet investigation.