In Minna, Niger State, a shocking crime has come to light. Mizanmil Abubakar, a 29-year-old man, has confessed to killing his 65-year-old father, Abubakar Adawa. According to reports, Mizanmil laced his father’s food with rat poison. After his father died from the poison, Mizanmil brutally dismembered the body using a hoe and buried the pieces in a shallow grave in their compound.
The State Commissioner of Police, Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamman, revealed these details during a press conference at the police headquarters in Dutsen-Kura Minna on August 7, 2024. Mizanmil admitted to the crime, claiming that his father harbored intense hatred towards him.
The statement read,
“On 30/7/2024 at about 1000hrs, an information was received at Kpakungu Division that on 29/7/2024 at about 2100hrs, one Abubakar Adawa aged 65yrs was missing from his house at Barkin-Sale area of Minna,” the statement read.
“Immediately this information was received, Police operatives attached to the Division led by the DPO visited the house, while one Mizanmil Abubakar aged 29yrs and Aisha Abubakar, the mother and the son were invited for interrogation.
“However, the whole compound was thoroughly searched, and surprisingly the severed body of the missing person was discovered buried in parts in a shallow grave within the compound. During interrogation, the said Mizanmil (son) confessed to being responsible for the gruesome act.
“He further confessed that his mother went out and instructed him to prepare food for the family pending her return; he said he served the meal of his father and laced it with rodenticide (rat poison), which the father ate and became unconscious and lifeless.
“Immediately he discovered this, he took a hoe and knife to sever the victim’s body, packed in different sacks and buried in a shallow grave within the compound.
“He asserted that he perpetrated this act before return of the mother, and that his reason for the gruesome act was that the deceased had much hatred for him.
“The suspect has been transferred to SCID for further investigation and will be charge to court for prosecution as soon as the investigation is concluded.”
