{"id":108747,"date":"2023-10-19T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=108747"},"modified":"2023-10-19T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:51:00","slug":"breaking-kaduna-police-declare-manhunt-for-killer-of-corps-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-kaduna-police-declare-manhunt-for-killer-of-corps-member\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Kaduna police declare manhunt for killer of corps member"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1780191135063949593\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kaduna State Police Command, on Thursday, confirmed the brutal murder of a member of the National Youth Service Corps member, Grace Chalya Silas, by yet-to-be-identified assailants in the state.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Command\u2019s spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan, told Pointblanknews.com that the state Police Commissioner, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, has directed a manhunt for the killers of the Corps member.<\/p>\n<p>Chalya Silas, who\u2019s doing her one-year mandatory national service in the state, was reported to have been stabbed to death during her morning jogging at the Barnawa, in Kaduna South Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased\u2019s friends and course mates at the University of Jos took to Facebook to mourn her.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, Comfort Elisha, wrote on her Facebook handle, \u201cNo na. What is really happening to Jossite and the Special Education department? We haven\u2019t finished mourning Kekefas Emmanuel, and now it\u2019s Chalya, brutally killed in Kaduna during her morning jogging while serving her fatherland. May your killers know no peace Chalya. This is too much to bear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0 the Kaduna Command\u2019s Public Relations\u00a0Officer,\u00a0 ASP Mansir Hassan, while\u00a0confirming the incident, described the death of the Corps member as \u201ctragic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan said the Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, after an emergency meeting of the top hierarchy of the command, had ordered the Barnawa Divisional Police Officer and operatives to hunt for the killers of the Corps member.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesman said, \u201cIt\u2019s a very tragic incident. She was performing her early morning jogging(exercise) when some miscreants(phone snatchers) on motorcycles pounced on her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim\u2019s name is\u00a0Grace Chalya Silas. She was a Corps member serving in Kaduna South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the case was reported to the police, operatives responded swiftly and moved to the scene of the crime where they saw the victim in the pool of her own blood. She was rushed to the clinic, where she was later confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the incident was reported to the police, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, held an emergency meeting with the top hierarchy of command over the matter. We are already in touch with NYSC in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CP has directed the Barnawa DPO\u00a0 and Area Commander, to immediately hunt for killers of the Corps member and fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna State Police Command, on Thursday, confirmed the brutal murder of a member of the National Youth Service Corps member, Grace Chalya Silas, by yet-to-be-identified assailants in the state.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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