By MAIKAT ISAAC
December 2022 was a dark period for the entire University of Jos community as one of its students, Ruth Yakadi was gruesomely murdered. The deceased who was a 400-level student of the Department of English Language and Literary Studies and was expected to graduate this academic session was according to reports raped and stabbed multiple times.
After months of investigation, the major suspect of Ruth’s murder, one Mr. Friday Samson, a security guard in a fuel station in Farin Gada has been arrested alongside 19 others.
The suspect confessed to the crime at the Plateau State police headquarters in Jos on Tuesday 4th April 2023. Mr. Samson was arrested by the police after the mobile phone belonging to Miss Yakadi was tracked and traced to one Mr. Ephraim Emmanuel who conceded that the phone was sold to him by Mr. Friday Samson.
In his statement, the suspect said he saw her alighting a taxi in the evening and stalked to a secluded area where he raped and mudered her.
People in Farin Gada are thankful for the closure as this rather sad incident has generated suspicion amongst neighbours living within the community.
They are glad that justice has finally prevailed and the murderer of Ruth Yakadi will finally pay for his crimes.
