The Kano State Police Command has arrested the suspected killer of three occupants of a house recently in the state .
The 25-year-old man, Salisu Idris allegedly set the house where the three believed to be members of the same family were sleeping.
The incident took place last Wednesday at Gayawa Tsohuwa village, Ungogo local government area of the state.
Police Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa who confirmed the arrest on Saturday said the victims were the father, the pregnant mother and their 2-year-old daughter.
“On Wednesday around 3 am, we received a report of a strange fire incident from Gayawa Tsohuwa in Ungogo local government area which we promised to investigate.
“After the incidence, the command’s commissioner of police Ahmed lliyasu, raised all the tactical units, the area commander of the metro division and the DPO of Zango division and he gave them 24hours to produce the perpetrators of the heinous act they immediately swung into action.
“Using our community policing strategies we were able to trace, track and arrest one person by name salisu Idris at mijinbir town, where he went to take cover at the local government area.
“We traced him and arrested him with severe burns he sustained in his body. We interrogated him and we found out that they were two that carried out the dastardly act and the other one is at large and very soon we’ll get him.”
Answering questions from reporters the suspect said was hired to carry out the act for N200, 000.
According to him, his plan had been to enroll into the Yusuf Maitama Sule University Kano with the money.
“A friend of mine asked me to accompany him to the house. He asked me to come along with him that at the end of the operation he will give me N200, 000. We came around 2 pm. And when we came we both climbed unto the building with petrol and immediately the fire was ignited I got caught up and burnt my hands and legs” he confessed.
Idris, a mobile phone seller at Farm Centre, Kano, said on getting home and overwhelmed with pains from his injuries he was taken to a clinic in the community from where he was referred to the hospital at Minjibir from where he was traced and arrested by the police.
