How Phone Thieves Stabbed Corps Member to Death in Kaduna

Agency Report/

The Kaduna State Police Command, on Thursday, confirmed the brutal murder of a member of the National Youth Service Corps member, Grace Chalya Silas, by yet-to-be-identified assailants in the state.

The girl who was attached to Kaduna South Local Government, was allegedly murdered by three people on Wednesday evening while jogging along a road in Barnawa GRA, Kaduna.

According to the Command’s spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan, the incident occurred at about 06:45hrs.

“She was attacked by three men on a bike who collected her phone and stabbed her while she was screaming and struggling with them.

“On receipt of the information, our security operatives went to the scene immediately.

“She was rushed to Harmony Hospital for treatment where she was confirmed dead by a medical doctor,” Hassan told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Kaduna.

He added that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Garba Yusuf, has ordered for full investigation to arrest and prosecute of the culprits.

Meanwhile, the deceased’s friends and course-mates at the University of Jos took to Facebook to mourn her.

One of them, Comfort Elisha, wrote on her Facebook handle, “No na. What is really happening to Jossite and the Special Education department? We haven’t finished mourning Kekefas Emmanuel, and now it’s Chalya, brutally killed in Kaduna during her morning jogging while serving her fatherland. May your killers know no peace Chalya. This is too much to bear.”

The PRO said, “The victim’s name is Grace Chalya Silas. She was a Corps member serving in Kaduna South.

“When the case was reported to the police, operatives responded swiftly and moved to the scene of the crime where they saw the victim in the pool of her own blood. She was rushed to the clinic, where she was later confirmed dead.

“Since the incident was reported to the police, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, held an emergency meeting with the top hierarchy of command over the matter. We are already in touch with NYSC in the state.

“The CP has directed the Barnawa DPO and Area Commander, to immediately hunt for killers of the Corps member and fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act.”

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