A Kaduna-serving National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Chalya Silas, has been stabbed to death in Barnawa area of Kaduna South local local area of Kaduna State on Wednesday by phone robbers.
According to Kaduna State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Munsur Hassan, Chalya was stabbed by the phone robbers while she was out for morning jogging exercise, following her resistance in releasing her phone to the assailants.
ASP Munsur Hassan said a manhunt for the perpetrators had already commenced.
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“Information available to us is that she was on a morning jogging with earpiece on her ear, then the robbers asked her for her phone which she resisted and one of them on the motorcycle stabbed her and before she could be rushed to the hospital, she was confirmed dead.
“We are doing everything possible to apprehend them, the DPO and Area Commander have been saddled with the responsibility of arresting them and I am sure in the coming days, they would have been arrested and paraded accordingly,” the PPRO assured.
The State government or the Kaduna State office of the NYSC has not comment of the incident.
Meanwhile, colleagues of the deceased have taken to social media in condemnation of the incident and expressed concerns over their safety and security in the State.