The Police Authority in Minna, the Niger State capital, have arrested eight suspects who allegedly assaulted the Chairman of Katcha Local Government Council in Niger State, Alhaji Danlami Abdullahi Saku over a debt of N1.3m.
Saku was beaten to pulp by the suspects during last week Eid-kabir celebration.
The suspects claimed that the Council Chairman was allegedly indebted to their father to the tune of N1.3m which he refused to pay.
As a result they were instructed by their father to collect the money from the Council Chairman which resulted to exchange of words between the suspects and the Chairman.
They bounced on the Chairman and who was beaten to coma and rushed to a hospital due to severe injuries sustained.
The suspects and their father are currently in detention at the State Criminal investigation and Intelligent Department (SCIID) of the Niger State Police Command headquarters in Minna.
They are Alhaji Yanda Alhaji Kasim (their father), Liman Man Hausa Gambo Yako, and Dantenin Yasheshi.
Others are Suleiman Yasheshi, Yanda Yashshi, Yabagi Bakotsu Alhaji Babakalema and Batman Yasheshi.
Their arrest and subsequent detention was sequel to the petition forwarded to the Commissioner of Police Niger state CP Ebenezer Shawulu Danmaman by Chairman’s lawyer, Barrister Mohammed Tsado Mohammed.
The legal practitioner further alleged that they bundled the Chairman into his ” own car, of which he requested them to allow him drive the car of which they reluctantly agreed but subject to their directions and preferred route to Gadza village where their father was awaiting them”
