Cyclists stab two more pedestrians in Bauchi

Unidentified motorcyclists have continued to wreak havoc in Bauchi metropolis as two more pedestrians were again stabbed on Thursday and Sunday night. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that unidentified people on motorcycles had been terrorizing residents of Fadaman Mada, Gida Dubu, Awalah and Madina Quarters areas of the metropolis in the past two […]

Unidentified motorcyclists have continued to wreak havoc in Bauchi metropolis as two more pedestrians were again stabbed on Thursday and Sunday night.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that unidentified people on motorcycles had been terrorizing residents of Fadaman Mada, Gida Dubu, Awalah and Madina Quarters areas of the metropolis in the past two months, stabbing no fewer than 10 pedestrians, two of who have died.

The Sunday incident occurred around 8pm, adjacent the office of  NAN at Fadaman Mada, when the motorcyclist slowed down, stabbed one Isiaka Hamisu and zoomed off.

Hamisu, a resident of Madina Quarters, told NAN that he was trekking home when the incident occurred, saying he was taken to hospital and treated of the wound inflicted on him.

The Thursday incident also took place in Fadaman Mada area at about 7.30pm, when another pedestrian, Husaini Umar, was stabbed in the same manner.

“Initially, the pain was not much but after some hours, it became severe that I had to be rushed to hospital for a second time,” Umar told NAN.

NAN gathered that in all the cases recorded, the mode of action was same – a motorcyclist slows down, stabs a person trekking, and zooms off.

“Most worrisome is that the motive for the spate of stabbing of innocent pedestrians is not clear.

“Unlike the one we are used to, whereby youth on drug stab to dispossess people of their valuables, nothing is taken away from the victims in this case,” a clergy in Bauchi, Malam Buhari Dahiru, told NAN.

Dahiru had on May 2, witnessed the stabbing of a woman very close to his mosque in Fadaman Mada area.

Also speaking to NAN on the issue, the community leader of Madina Quarters area of Bauchi metropolis, Malam Ibrahim Musa, said it was being suspected that the incidents had link with people engaged in ritual activities.

Meanwhile, Bauchi State Police Command said on Monday that it had arrested 12 persons in connection with the incidents recorded.