The Bauchi State Police Command on Wednesday said the force has commenced serious search for the mob responsible for the death of a woman suspected to be a female suicide bomber.
DAILY POST recalls that the deceased who was identified by her middle aged mother, Thabita Haruna, on Sunday met her death in the hands of irate youths in Muda Lawal City Market in Bauchi, after she reportedly refused to pass through security screening at the entrance of the market.
According to the Bauchi State Police image maker, Haruna Mohammed, the deceased was not a suicide bomber as people thought.
Mohammed said, “All our investigations have proved that this woman was mentally sick and had nothing to do with suicide bombing,” adding that security operatives will not allow citizens to take the law into their hands.
“We are continuing with the investigation and as soon as the perpetrators of this act are arrested we will take legal action against them,” he said.
Rahab Haruna, the mother to the deceased called on law enforcement officers to do all they could to bring to justice the killers of her daughter. She noted, “There is law, therefore her assailants should not have taken the law into their hands. They just killed and burnt my daughter.”
She further described her daughter as a normal young woman whom she said was a trader before she became mentally derailed, upon which she received medical attention between 2007 and 2013 at a psychiatric hospital.
“She would get an occasional bout of the illness and when that happened, she would go wild and destroy things. She would gather household articles and burn them. “When she became a bit okay, she would calm down and became normal and help with domestic chores. “She left home on Saturday; we didn’t know where she went. We looked for her all over our neighbourhood but we didn’t find her until the next day.
“She ended up in Muda Lawal market where she was assaulted, humiliated and burnt to death. Before she was killed, they searched her and found on her the identification card of her sister Alheri.”
It was learnt that the deceased was traced back to the family home through an identity card.
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