The Digest:
A man in Katsina State has been arrested for the brutal murder of a nursing mother and her infant over a paternity dispute. According to police, the suspect lured the victims to the village outskirts, where they were killed, burned, and dumped in a well.
Key Points :
- Police arrested Sahabi Rabi’u, 35, for murdering a 30-year-old woman and her 10-month-old baby
- The crime occurred in Sheme village, Faskari LGA of Katsina State
- The suspect confessed to killing the victims over a paternity dispute
- He allegedly conspired with another suspect who is currently at large
- The victims were lured, murdered, burned, and dumped into a well
- Katsina Police Commissioner condemned the act as “barbaric and inhumane.”
- Investigations are ongoing, with efforts to arrest the second suspect
In a dispute over blood and belonging, a family was violently erased, a harrowing reminder of how conflict, when untamed, can burn through the very bonds it claims to defend. Here, justice must now root itself in the ashes of an unspeakable storm.
Sources: Premium Times, The Nation
