Acting on credible intelligence, the Intelligence Department of the Bauchi State Police Command arrested a 35-year-old Mustapha Tahiti over an attempt to kill his late brother’s widow and her new husband.
Tahiti, a medical recorder with the Maternity Clinic in Kofar Ran, Bauchi town attempted to kill the new husband who is a cousin, and his wife by injecting them with insecticides.
A statement on Thursday by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, said the operatives arrested the suspect in the act while actively planning to carry out his mission.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the alleged crime and stated that he filled a syringe with insecticide chemical he bought which would be forcefully administered on the victims,” Wakil said.
The statement further that disclosed that Tahiti plan to disappear with the belongings of the couple after their death, if he had succeeded.
The statement said, “He also said he would cart away their valuables when he killed both his brother and his wife.”
The Bauchi Police spokesman disclosed that the accused person filled a syringe he had planned to use for the dastardly act with insecticide to inject the couple with the poisonous substance.
SP Wakil, in the statement said the syringe has been recovered as an exhibit.
Police investigations revealed that the suspect had grudges with the victim for marrying his late elder brother’s wife, whom he loved dearly and wanted to marry.
Unfortunately, the widow does not want to marry him.
Tahiti said he warned the victim several times not to marry the widow but ignored.
The state’s Commissioner of Police, CP Auwal Musa Mohammed has directed that the suspect be charged to court upon completion of the discreet investigation.
The CP assured the good people of Bauchi State of his commitment and efforts towards curtailing crime and criminality throughout the state.