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The Nigeria Police on Friday,
June 21, arrested a DPO in Mashi local government area of Katsina for allegedly
killing his girlfriend's maid –
Garba Talawai was said to have
killed and dumped 16-year-old pregnant Rabi Abdullahi in a bush path before
depositing her at the Primary Health centre following report by the area
councillor –
According to the Police,
preliminary investigation has indicted the DPO for concealment of facts to the
possible cause of death of the deceased
The police on Friday, June 20,
arrested a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) attached to Mashi local government
area, Garba Talawai, for the killing of his girlfriend's maid, Rabi Abdullahi.
Daily Trust reports that Talawai
allegedly killed Abdullahi, 16, at about 12.00 hrs on Friday in Mashi local
government area.
Confirming the report, the
spokesperson for the Katsina state police command, Gambo Isah, said the
councillor of the area had made a report to the suspected DPO that a corpse was
seen along a bush path in Mashi.
It was gathered that Talawai
after receiving the report went the the bush path, evacuated the corpse to the
Primary Health Centre in the area.
He said the body was later
identified as Abdullahi after one of the health staff on duty to identify the
corpse as having been brought the previous day dead by the same DPO along with
one other policeman yet to be identified inside a red Toyota Carina II. Isah
said: "The deceased was later identified as a housemaid to one Sadiya
Alhaji Danyaya, a girlfriend of the DPO."
He also said that Sadiya
confirmed that she reported to the DPO that the girl was missing since 19 June
after she rebuked her for carrying an unwanted pregnancy and for sleeping
outside the house. The Police Spokesperson said preliminary investigation has
indicted the DPO for concealment of facts to the possible cause of death of the
deceased.
Isah also said that the commissioner of police
in the state, Sanusi Buba, has ordered a thorough investigation into the
matter, while Talawai has been replaced by another DPO.
“Consequently both the DPO and
the said girl friend have been arrested and are helping detectives to unravel
the circumstances surrounding the death of the deceased," Isah said.
Meanwhile, New Online previously reported that the Katsina police
command have confirmed that five persons who were members of the local
vigilante were killed by bandits in Faskari local government area on Tuesday,
May 21.