A senior workers member of the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, Mr Salihu Muhammad Chimo, has recounted how his 24-year-old daughter, Fatima Salihu Muhammad Chimo, went lacking and was discovered decomposing 5 days later.
Chimo, the fast previous Director of Tutorial Planning of the Polytechnic, who resides within the workers quarters, informed our correspondent that Fatima was on an errand to get some groceries on the neighbouring Birshin Fulani group, behind the Polytechnic perimeter fence, on Thursday final week.
“Each different sibling went to highschool. She was requested to get issues to organize meals at about 10:00 a.m. Since that point, we didn’t hear from anybody about her whereabouts. We reported it to the authorities.
“It was 5 days later that some folks known as me from the chief of the Birshin Fulani group, saying they discovered a decomposing physique inside a maize farm near our quarters. Her corpse had began smelling. We seen that some organs had been eliminated earlier than she was dumped in that place,” he mentioned.
Recall that final August, armed males invaded the Polytechnic at midnight to rob the scholars of their belongings.
The theft compelled the scholars to protest the insecurity on campus whereas demanding their security.
The protests degenerated into chaos, whereas police fired teargas to manage the disruption of peace in the neighborhood.
The establishment’s administration shut down the varsity for 2 weeks and known as for calm whereas making certain the scholars’ security earlier than the demise of Fatima.
Additionally, in August, armed robbers had attacked college students of the Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic, a number of kilometres away from the troubled Federal Polytechnic, the place one of many learners was stabbed to dying in Wunti-Dada group, the place many of the college students reside.
The Bauchi Police Command, in an announcement on Tuesday, mentioned that it has launched a manhunt for the perpetrators of the crime and promised to make sure that justice is delivered.
The Command’s spokesperson, Ahmed Wakil, mentioned that the Commissioner of Police, Sani-Omolori Aliyu, has assembled a crew of skilled murder investigators entrusted with conducting thorough, methodical, and well timed investigations.
He mentioned, “Their goal is to assemble proof, remove uncertainties, and assure that justice is run by a complete course of that adheres to all important protocols essential for an in depth investigation.”
