By Abimbola Ogunnaike
The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested ten people, including a police officer and vigilante members for allegedly killing a woman over alleged witchcraft.
The command Public relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, in a statement signed and issued on Sunday, 11 June, 2023, said, “Adamawa State Police Command came across an unfortunate video which has gone viral in some sections of the media, especially social media, where an Inspector of Police and some members of Vigilantes attached to Dumne Divisional Police Headquarters, were sighted maltreating and assaulting three women in an unprofessional manner.
“The women were stripped naked and beaten mercilessly by the mob over the allegation of witchcraft, as a result of which two of them were brutally murdered.”
According to Nguroje, the suspected police officer, Ahmed Suleiman, as well as the vigilante members and all others seen in the implicating video, 10 of them in all, had been arrested on the order of the state Commissioner of Police, CP Afolabi Babatola.
The state police image-maker added that the CP immediately deployed the Deputy Commissioner of Police, who arrested the officers and all those seen maltreating and assaulting the women, to investigate the matter adding, “Equally, the CP has ordered a thorough investigation into the immediate and remote causes of this condemnable incident as well as ensure speedy dispensation of justice.
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