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The Police Command in Niger has arrested one Umar Jibril, for allegedly killing a cleric he claimed was his wife’s lover.
Jibril, a resident of Enagi village, in Edati Local Government of the state, was arrested on Tuesday, according to Mr Adamu Usman, the Niger Police commissioner.
Usman told the Newsmen in Minna that the suspect was arrested on Monday, April 12, “at about 0100 hours, based on credible information”.
He added that the suspect allegedly stabbed one Alhaji Attahiru Alhassan, the Chief Imam of Edagi, to death, with an iron rod.
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A middle aged man, Jilbrin Adamu Jibrin, has been accused of stabbing the Chief Imam of Enagi, Attahiru Alhassan, to death.
Enagi is the headquarters of Edati Local Government Area of Niger State.
It was gathered that Adamu went to the chief imam’s house to inform him that visitors were around to see him outside.
He was said to have led the imam to the back of his own house where he stabbed him many times and also hit him with an object before leaving the imam to die.
The source added that Adamu was traced and arrested in the neighbouring village of Batati.