2 PATENT MEDICINE VENDORS INJECT MAN WITH PENTOR TO DEATH, DUMP CORPSE IN RIVER

Two patent medicine vendors, Habu Badiru and Auwal Lawan have confessed to administering pentorline injection on a commercial tricycle operator, Algoni Goni of Uba in Adamawa state to death.

The 27 year old Habu of Askira Uba, Borno state and the 26 year old Lawan of Uba Hildi in Adamawa state respectively confessed that they injected Goni with the overdose of pentor and also strangulated him to death so as carry his new tricycle.

According to them, they killed their victim on the 4th March, 2022, dumped his corpse in a river in Uba, Hong LGA, after which Badiru rode on the tricycle to Mubi so as to sell it.

The suspects narrated that they murdered their victim in order to sell his tricycle and raise the sum of N100, 000 for Habu Badiru, to settle debt.

Narrating the incident to NEWS PLATFORM at the Police headquarters in Adamawa state today, Lawan said that they boarded the tricycle to the house of Habu where they held its rider and now deceased and injected him with pentor.

Lawan added that after injecting him, they also strangulated him as a result of which he died on the spot, and that they later carried the corpse on his shoulder and dumped it in a river in Uba.

He told NEWS PLATFORM that Habu met him on that fateful day and  told him that he was in need of N100, 000 to settle debt, and that they took the tricycle opetator to his house where they killed him.

On his part, Habu narrated that after killing Algoni, he rode on the tricycle to Mubi to sell it, but people refused to buy it due to lack of particulars, saying that he went and packed it at Mararaba Mubi.

Habu stated further that the following morning, he took the tricycle to Mubi for second time for sell, where he decided and called a buyer from Uba, and that on his arrival, he asked him(Habu) how he got the tricycle considering the fact that he is patent medicine vendor.

The suspect said that the man who came to buy the tricycle called the chairman and informed him about it without him knowing that it was the chairman and that the chairman came along side the police where he was apprehended.

When contacted, the image maker of the police command, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, confirmed the arrest and the confession of the suspects, assuring that they will be charged to court as soon as investigation is completed.