UNKNOWN GUNMEN MEN PLUCK THE EYE OF A 12-YEAR OLD ALMAJIRI BOY.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.

Wickedness: Unknown men pluck eye of 12 years old Almajiri boy

Omeiza Balogun 

A 12-year-old Najib Hussaini, an indigene of Kano state, and student of a Qur’anic education (Almajiranci) in Kafin-Madaki has fell victim to eye plucking by unknown men.  

The boy according to a statement by the Bauchi Police Command, Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Wakil, the boy was barely a year in the state when the incident occurred on 9th December, 2022 at about 0200hrs at Unguwar Yamma, not far from the victim’s school (Tsangaya). 

It was revealed that two unknown people who came on a motorcycle lured the young victim to a nearby house to assist them to call a lady. 

The perpetrators of the evil act thereafter took him on a bike to an isolated area near Hanyar Gonar Wakili of the same village, where they stopped the motorcycle near a bushy area and forcefully plucked the right eye of the victim and consequently abandoned him in his pool of blood. 

The victim however managed to reach a point where he was sighted by some of his colleagues who rushed him to their teacher.

The incident was reported to the Ganjuwa Divisional Police Headquarters where the victim was rushed to Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital Bauchi (ATBUTH).

Reacting to the dastardly act, the Commissioner of Police, Bauchi Police Command, CP AMINU ALHASSAN has appealed to the general public to always be security conscious and report strange people and suspicious movements in their communities. 

CP Alhassan also assured that the perpetrators of such criminal acts would be apprehended soon.