Kamaluddeen Musa, a 22-year-old final year student of Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education, Bauchi State has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing his best friend to death over a girl.
The suspect was said to have attacked and killed the victim, Usman Mani Tiffi, 25, on Monday, Nov 28, 2022. It was gathered that both the suspect and the victim were final-year students of the school.
Nigerian Tribune reports that trouble started after the duo got into an altercation over who is the real boyfriend of a fellow female student.
The deceased, a Biochemistry student, was to graduate on Dec 9, 2022 before the unfortunate incident occurred.
An eyewitness claimed there was a heated argument between the two friends over the girl on the fateful day.
The late Usman then reportedly said that he had left the girl for him (Kamal) who warned that he should not be seen around the girl again or he would blame himself for whatever happened to him.
However, the police said their preliminary investigation revealed that both the suspect fought over an outing.
“A little altercation broke between them when the deceased bewailed that the suspect went on an outing without notifying the deceased, this led to a physical confrontation which inflicted injury to the thumb finger of the suspect, on the process the suspect drew a small knife from his pocket and stabbed the deceased in his stomach and it was corroborated by the two eye-witnesses; Musa Danjuma ‘m’ aged 22yrs and Nawasi Sadi ‘m’ aged 20yrs all students of the same school,” the police said in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, a copy of which was made available to journalists in Bauchi on Wednesday.
