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Operatives of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have recovered the body of missing Abuja farmer, Hussaini Aliyu Takuma, in a well at Jeda Community in Kuje Area Council.
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Spokesperson for the Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Omotayo Williams, who disclosed in a statement, yesterday, said some suspects have been arrested, while investigation is ongoing. He stressed that the victim’s body was taken to Kuje General Hospital before it was taken for re-burial.
According to Williams, on June 4, a 44-year old man, Zakari Hassan Takuma, of Area 7 Garki Abuja, came to Kuje Police station and reported that on June 2, his brother, Hussaini Aliyu Takuma, 32, of the same address, visited his farm at Jeda in Kuje, but did not return.
He said on receipt of the complaint, detectives tracked 20-year-old Umar Mohammed, a worker in the farm and his friend, Ibrahim Yusuf, 18, who were seen at Kabusa on their way to Kano with rustled cattle.
According to him, during investigation, it was discovered that the animals belonged to the victim. He said 28-year-old Ephraim Mbaiga, also a worker in the farm, had also been arrested, together with other suspects connected to the matter.
Until his death, Takuma was the managing director of Takuma’s Zoo farm. He has since been buried according to Islamic rites in Abuja.
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Police recover body of missing Abuja farmer, arrest suspects
Date: 15 June 2022 4:19am WAT
Aondohimba Abraham, a millet farmer poses for a photo in his farm after abandoning his main farm due to attacks on farmers in Eggon, Nasarawa State Nigeria on August 11, 2021.Many farmers in rural areas in Abuja, Nasarawa, Benue and Jos have been deprived of access to their farmlands for fear being kidnapped or killed by herders. - Threatened by insecurity, farmers in Nigeria's farm belt are increasingly abandoning their land, leading to supply problems and adding to the already high cost of food in Africa's most populous country. Nigeria's Middle Belt and northwestern states have for years been caught in violence between normadic herdsman and farmers as climate change intensifies rivalries over water and land. But that violence has spiralled into security crisis tit-for-tat attacks and expanded into widespread kidnapping, cattle theft and criminal banditary. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)
Aondohimba Abraham, a millet farmer poses for a photo in his farm after abandoning his main farm due to attacks on farmers in Eggon, Nasarawa State Nigeria on August 11, 2021.Many farmers in rural areas in Abuja, Nasarawa, Benue and Jos have been deprived of access to their farmlands for fear being kidnapped or killed by herders. - Threatened by insecurity, farmers in Nigeria's farm belt are increasingly abandoning their land, leading to supply problems and adding to the already high cost of food in Africa's most populous country. Nigeria's Middle Belt and northwestern states have for years been caught in violence between normadic herdsman and farmers as climate change intensifies rivalries over water and land. But that violence has spiralled into security crisis tit-for-tat attacks and expanded into widespread kidnapping, cattle theft and criminal banditary. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)
