The prime suspect in the alleged mob killing of University of Jos graduate, Ibrahim Pilasar Mbaya, popularly known as Ibee, has admitted striking the deceased three times with a wooden plank, as four suspects recounted their alleged roles during police interrogation over the incident that has sparked outrage across the country.
The suspects spoke during an interrogation by the Plateau State Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Alfred Alobo, in a video shared by Manari TV on Tuesday.
Mbaya, a Political Science graduate awaiting mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps, allegedly died after he was accused of stealing an iPhone 12.
Speaking first during the interrogation, Emmanuel Newyear, 30, who was earlier identified by the police as the principal suspect captured in a viral video assaulting the deceased with a wooden plank, admitted attacking Mbaya.
“I was the one that hit him with the plank three times,” he said.
