The police in Bauchi State have apprehended a four-man syndicate over the gruesome abduction/murder of blogger and writer, Abdulhakeem Bauchin Bauchi.
This was contained in a statement by the spokesperson for the Command, SP Haruna Mohammed, who said the suspects – Micheal Sansai, Samuel Uzima, William Yakubu and Dauda Akanni – were nabbed after discreet investigations, LIB writes.
Stating that the principal suspect, Michael Sansai, is a member of the Black Axe Confraternity, SP Haruna added that objects recovered from the ring include a mobile phone belonging to the deceased, dry leaves suspected to be marijuana, among others.
Bauchi Bauchin went missing earlier this month to the consternation of family and friends, only for his mutilated body to turn up several days later at Rugan Jira mountain in Gwallameji Area of Bauchi State.
He was due to get wedded in a few weeks.
It remains unclear if his murder had anything to do with his writings which centred on human rights abuses, particularly in the north.
The suspects will be physically paraded by the commissioner of Police later in the week when they would have concluded investigations and arrested other fleeing accomplices in the crime.
Bloggers have been arrested in the past for writing posts deemed inciting, but this is the first time one would be killed in Nigeria.
