Man Kills Okada Rider, Attempts To Steal Bike To Raise Money To Marry 3rd Wife In Bauchi

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested 1 Mamuda Zakari Yau, a 30-year-old petty trader, popularly known arsenic Wadata, for allegedly sidesplitting a commercialized motorcyclist, Basiru Mohammed, aged 25, successful an effort to bargain his motorcycle to rise wealth for his planned wedding to wed a 3rd wife.

In a connection issued connected Friday nighttime by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, the fishy was arrested pursuing a distress telephone received connected October 16, 2025, from a vigilant nonmigratory of Unguwan Dr. Sulaiman Adamu Quarters, adjacent the aged Airport country successful Bauchi.

According to the statement, preliminary investigations revealed that Yau engaged the victim, a nonmigratory of Zango Sa’idawa, successful a fisticuffs during which helium allegedly utilized a weapon to fatally stab him earlier fleeing with his reddish Bajaj Boxer motorcycle bearing registration fig NNG 813 UM.

However, the unfortunate managed to rise an alarm earlier collapsing, prompting residents to pursuit the suspect. The pursuit forced Ya’u to wantonness the stolen motorcycle and flight the scene.

Wakil added that a squad of detectives from ‘E’ Division, Yelwa, was instantly dispatched to the location.

The unfortunate was rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), wherever helium was sadly pronounced dormant connected arrival.

The connection further said the victim’s assemblage has been deposited astatine the infirmary morgue for a postmortem examination.

Police further probe led to the betterment of exhibits astatine the scene, including 1 Bajaj Boxer motorcycle, a blood-stained knife, a brace of shoes, and an Android telephone belonging to the suspect. Using accusation retrieved from the phone, detectives successfully tracked and arrested Ya’u.

“During the interrogation, the fishy confessed to the crime, attributing his actions to fiscal difficulties linked to his volition to wed a 3rd wife. He deceitfully lured the motorcyclist and utilised a weapon to stab him during the altercation,” the connection added.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Aliyu Sani-Omolori, has directed that the lawsuit beryllium transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further probe and prosecution.