A security guard identified as Friday Samson, has been arrested by the Plateau State Police Command for allegedly killing a 32-year-old lady, Ruth Yakadi Bako in Jos North Local Government Area of the State.
The late Ruth, a UNIJOS graduate, was stabbed, r*ped and k!lled and her property, carted away at Angwan Jarawa in Farin-Gada area of Jos last year December.
Addressing newsmen on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, through the spokesperson of the command, DSP Alfred Alabo, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Bartholomew Onyeka, said that after the dastardly incident, police operatives of the Laranto Division of the command led by CSP Pam Dauda Ishaya swung into action and arrested one Ephraim Emmanuel of Angwan Jarawa, Farin-Gada in Jos with the victim’s phone.
He added that upon interrogation, the suspect disclosed that one Friday Samson, of the same address sold the phone to him. Further investigation led to the arrest of Samson, a choirmaster who confessed to having r*ped and k!lled Ruth.
Speaking to newsmen, the 29-year-old suspect and father of two, said he r*ped and k!lled Ruth after she refused to sleep with him.
According to the accused, he sighted her alighting from a commercial vehicle late in the night after closing from work and followed her to a secluded area where he r*ped her after much a lot of resistance.
“I am here because I r*ped and k!lled someone. I don’t have any reason for what I did but I did it, it is just wickedness of the heart. That day, I just wanted to sleep with her but she refused, due to wickedness, I r*ped and k!lled her,” he narrated.
“I am a security guard at a filling station at Farin Gada. That day, I was on duty that night and I saw her passing at about 11:00pm. I have never seen her before and I don’t know her but I called her and told her I wanted to sleep with her but she refused. I chased her and caught up with her. That was when I stabbed and r*ped her.
“She was not dead when I r*ped her, it is just wickedness of the heart. After I r*ped her, I picked up her phone and held it for one month. After that I sold it to Ephraim Emmanuel, I did not tell him where I got the phone from just that I told him that the phone is mine. The phone is a Redmi. I started working in the filling station in August 2022 and I was being paid N28,000.”
Emmanuel, who bought the phone added, “I bought the phone because I know him as my choirmaster. He did not tell me he was not the owner of the phone and I did not know the story behind the phone. The Police tracked the phone to me and arrested me so I told them who sold the phone to me.”
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