Breaking: Senior Naval Officer stabbed to death by phone snatcher

Senior Naval Officer stabbed to death in Kaduna by phone snatchers around Kawo flyover bridge close to Stanbic Bank in the early hours of 8th June 2025 as he stopped to change a flat tyre.

The deceased, Lt Cdr M Buba (NN/3713), a senior course student of the AFCSC Jaji was attacked and stabbed on the chest with a knife at a bus stop before Kawo flyover bridge (10.587200° 7.450018°) by a yet to be identified miscreant.

According to eyewitness account, the unfortunate incident occurred when the senior officer had a flat tire while on his way returning to Jaji and he alighted from his car trying to change the flat tyre, when the unknown assailant suddenly appeared and demanded him to handover his GSM phone.

The senior officer refused questioning the rationale when the assailant suddenly stabbed him on the chest with a local knife. One Suleiman Dahiru, a local vigilante who witnessed the altercation attempted to help the senior officer but was also stabbed on the hand by the assailant too.

The assailant was subsequently overpowered and mobbed by nearby people who also killed him on the spot

The wounded senior officer was initially rushed to Manaal Hospital but was confirmed dead on arrival.

The corpse of the deceased was subsequently evacuated to 44 NARHK mortuary for further action.

Troops in plain clothes, police and other civil security agencies have been mobilised and tasked on covert operations to identify and clear all miscreants loitering around bus stops and other black spots in Kaduna Metropolis.

According to our sources, similar incident happened last year June, 2024 in the same spot.

Efforts to get relevant authority for comment proved abortive.