According to the Niger state Police Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Abubakar, Six suspects have been arrested by the State Police Command for allegedly killing a tanker driver.
The driver identified as Goni Mustapha, works for the AGM Petroleum Nigeria Limited, Suleja and was reportedly on his way from Lagos to deliver 60,000 litres of petroleum product to a location in Suleja, when one of his colleagues led five other assailants to strangle him living his corpse lying along the Maje-Dikko Road in the Tunga Shanu area of state.
It is reported that a colleague of the deceased, Goni Tijani, 27, stationed five of the suspects on the route to carry out the act and divert the tanker to an unknown destination and his accomplices were Bashir Alhassan, 25, from Zamfara State; Samaila Umar, 21, from Sokoto State; Abdulkadir Muktari, 21, from Katsina State; Isah Sani from Lagos State; and Yusuf Muktari.
According to Northern City News, the suspects were arrested while they were trying to sell the product and the tanker has since been recovered and the suspects are due to appear in court soon.
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