Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old guy, Sallau Inuwa, popularly referred to as Liman Katagum, for allegedly stabbing his colleague, Ibrahim, 45, to demise following a controversy over cash generated from a automotive wash trade.
The incident passed off on Thursday, October 22, 2026, at a automotive wash in Bauchi city, the place each males reportedly disagreed over the fee charged for laundry a automobile.
In step with a remark issued on Friday via the Police Public Members of the family Officer, SP Nafiu Habib, the war of words escalated when the suspect allegedly picked up a knife and stabbed Ibrahim a number of occasions.
“Regrettably, regardless of efforts to save lots of him, Ibrahim used to be showed useless on the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa College Educating Sanatorium, ATBUTH, Bauchi,” the remark mentioned.
The police mentioned operatives hooked up to the A Department in Bauchi instantly introduced an investigation after receiving a document of the incident.
Initial findings reportedly indicated that the suspect had fled to his paternal house within the Liman Katagum space following the stabbing.
The police due to this fact alerted the Divisional Police Officer in Liman Katagum, resulting in a coordinated operation that resulted within the suspect’s arrest at Mararraban Liman Katagum.
The Commissioner of Police, Sani-Omolori Aliyu expressed worry over the incident, describing it as a sad lack of existence bobbing up from a war of words over cash.
“The CP, whilst condoling with the circle of relatives of the deceased, urges contributors of the general public to regulate their anger and get to the bottom of disputes thru discussion and different lawful method moderately than resorting to violence,” the remark added.
Aliyu additional wired that provocation may just now not justify taking someone else’s existence.
“He reiterates that regardless of the extent of provocation, taking a existence can by no means be justified,” the police spokesperson mentioned.
The suspect is lately in police custody on the State Legal Investigation Division, SCID, Bauchi, the place investigations are ongoing forward of his prosecution.