24-year-old allegedly kills father with rat poison, mutilates corpse
A 24-year-old man, Muzanmil Abubakar, has allegedly killed his father by lacing his meal with rat poison, mutilated the corpse by severing the legs and hand and buried remains in a grave, but has been arrested and subsequently charged to court in Minna, Niger State.
Penpushing reports that the police first information report with reference number MN/CR/45/2024, dated 29 June 2024, stated that one Abubakar Abdullahi of Sauka Kahuta area of Minna lodged a report about the incident at the Kpakungu Divisional Police Command.
‘That on the 28th June 2024, at about 12 noon, you, Muzanmil Abubakar of Model City area, Barikin Saleh, Minna, who was left together with his own father, Abubakar Adawa, at home. He could not give a satisfactory account of the whereabouts of his father when asked despite the search’, the report reads.
‘Police detectives swung into action and during investigation, a spot was discovered suspected to be a shallow grave. And when it was dug, the dead body of the father was found with legs and hands cut off to which he answered to have administered rat poison substance into his food’, the report added.
“Which he ate and became weak and he used a hoe to hit him on his head to death and after which he used a sharp knife and severed his body into parts to enable him bury him easily. It was further revealed that he did that dastardly act because he had on several occasions reported him to vigilante group’, the report stated
Penpushing further reports that the suspect was, however, arraigned by the Homicide Squad of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligent Department (SCIID) before the court on one count of culpable homicide, punishable under section 221 of the penal code law with death.
The police prosecutor, Bello Beji however, told the court that the police would forward the case file to the Ministry of Justice for advice, and thereafter requested the remand of the defendant pending the outcome
Penpushing also reports that the Magistrate Ummulkhatum Mohammed read the charge to the accused, who in response pleaded not guilty, and the magistrate, however, ordered his remand and adjourned the case to September 18, 2024 for further mention.
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