The 18-month-old boy, Muhammad Musa Abideen, was murdered, and the Bauchi State Police Command has committed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crime.
The Command announced that it has established an investigating committee under the direction of DCP Yakubu Mohammed, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, to fully look into the killing of the young boy.
According to a report by OBASANJO NEWS24, Senator Bala Mohammed, the State Governor, ordered the immediate closure of the institution on Wednesday after Musa’s body was discovered there with some of his essential organs missing.
The child was with his mother, Saudatu Abideen ‘f’ (aged 21), of Bakin Kura Street in Bauchi city when he vanished on August 19, 2023, according to a police inquiry.
According to a statement released on Thursday by the command’s spokesman, Superintendent of Police SP Ahmed Wakil, the deceased’s bones were thrown at a soak-away in the Games Village neighbourhood of the Bauchi metropolis by the alleged ritualists.
Wakil further stated that the young boy’s parents had buried his body.
According to the statement, CP Auwal Musa Muhammad, Commissioner of Police for the Bauchi State Command, “condemned the ruthless and terrible act exhibited by the anonymous men of the underworld, promising to trace and clampdown on the perpetrators to allow the law to take its course.”
In addition to promising to leave no stone unturned until the victim receives justice, the CP stated that the command was already looking into those suspected of being guilty for the horrific death of the young child.
