A suspected vigilante alledgedly killed an attendant of a Point of Sale, POS, shop in Adamawa State and stolen the cash balance of the day.
The supect whose name is given as Nuhu Dauda, a 28-year-old regular customer at the POS shop located in New Badisa, a community in Girei Local Government Area.
It was gathered that on Sunday morning the suspect went to the shop on Saturday, strangled the female attendant, a 12-year-old secondary school student, and went away with all the money he find on her.
The suspect also took away the POS machine at the shop, but has since been arrested and now in police net.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Sulaiman Nguroje, said the suspect had been arrested and found to be a member of a vigilante group operating in the community.
“The victim’s family members are helping the police with useful information for a wider investigation,” the PPRO said.
The victim, Jemima Reuben, is said to be a student of First Baptist Academy, Yola, who was using the COVID-19 forced holiday to work at the POS shop but was said to be preparing to resume school on Monday, October 12 before her untimely death.
