Adamawa State Police Command has arrested a student of the Federal Polytechnic Mubi, Muniru Abubakar, and his two accomplices for allegedly killing and burying his pregnant girlfriend in a shallow grave.
It was gathered that the deceased, Franca Elisha Iliya, an ND 2 Library Science student of the same institution, who was impregnated by Abubakar, died while the suspects were trying to abort the baby.
Abubakar claimed that they both did not want to keep the baby and mutually agreed to secretly terminate the pregnancy.
According to the police, Abubakar took the deceased into his room located at a students’ community behind the State University, Mubi, for the abortion on the 6th August 2021 and invited his friend, Huzaifa Shuaibu who is a student of the College of Health Technology, Mubi, to carry out the abortion.
Huzaifa was said to have administered an injection to Franca for the abortion but she fainted immediately and regained consciousness later after spirited efforts.
Upon recovering, she was reportedly given the second dose of the injection. The lady fainted again and could not be resuscitated.
Sensing danger, Muniru Abubakar was said to have invited one of his other friends, a student of the polytechnic, Rabiu Adamu, to assist to bury the corpse in a shallow grave with her mobile phone, national identity card and other items that could expose the crime they had committed.
The suspects were eventually arrested after the father of the deceased, Mr Elisha Iliya, raised an alarm over his missing daughter.
Iliya, who resides at Sabon Gari in Mubi, told Tribune Online that his daughter left home on that fateful day for school, but did not return. He said efforts to locate her proved abortive.
Iliya said that they met her colleagues in the school and one of them disclosed that she left the deceased with her boyfriend, Abubakar and returned to the hostel because it was raining.
The police with family members eventually found Abubakar playing football where he was arrested and he was made to take them to where Franca was buried.
Spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, who confirmed the arrest said that the Commissioner of Police, Aliyu Alhaji, had ordered a full investigation into the incident.
Nguroje said that investigation so far revealed that it was Muniru Abubakar who impregnated the deceased. Huzaifa Shuaibu administered the injection, while Rabiu Adamu assisted in burying the corpse.
The PPRO said that the suspects would soon be charged to court.
Meanwhile, the father of the deceased has appealed to relevant authorities to do everything possible and ensure that justice is done.
