Tragedy as middle-aged man stabs grandparents to death over food

By Bashir Bello

Tragedy connected Thursday struck residents of Kano State arsenic a 30-year-old man, identified arsenic Mutawakilu Ibrahim, stabbed his grandparents, Muhammad Dansokoto and Hadiza Tasidi, to decease pursuing an altercation implicit a food-related disagreement.

Confirming the disfigured incident, the spokesperson of the Kano Police Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna, said that during the altercation, the suspect, who was suspected to beryllium nether the power of an intoxicant, allegedly utilized a weapon to stab some victims successful assorted parts of their bodies, causing terrible injuries.

SP Haruna said the victims were rushed to the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital successful Kano, wherever they were aboriginal confirmed dormant by the aesculapian personnel.

He said the fishy has since been arrested and taken into custody.

According to him, “On September 25, 2025, astatine astir 09:30am, a nonmigratory of Kofar Dawanau Quarters reported that 1 Mutawakilu Ibrahim, aged 30, had a quarrel with his grandparents, Muhammad Dansokoto, aged 75, and Hadiza Tasidi, aged 65, implicit a food-related disagreement.

“During the altercation, the fishy allegedly utilized a weapon to stab some victims successful assorted parts of their bodies, causing terrible injuries.

“The victims were instantly rushed to Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano, wherever they were confirmed dormant by aesculapian personnel. Their corpses were examined and aboriginal released to their relatives for burial successful accordance with Islamic rites.

“The alleged culprit, suspected to beryllium nether the power of intoxicants, has been arrested, and based connected the directives of the Commissioner of Police, CP Ibrahim Adamu Bakori, the lawsuit has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Homicide Section for discreet investigation.

“The fishy volition beryllium charged to tribunal upon completion of the investigation,” the constabulary spokesperson, SP Haruna, however, stated.

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