Church Choir Master Narrates How He Raped And Murdered 32-Year-Old Graduate In Jos, Plateau State

The plateau state police has arrested one church Choir Master who murdered a UNIJOS graduate (32) lady identified as Ruth Yakadi Bako in Jos North Local Government Area of the State.

According to reports gathered, the deceased was stabbed, raped and killed, and her property carted away at Angwan Jarawa in Farin-Gada area of Jos last year December, 2022.

The father of two who spoke to the newsmen, said the 29-year-old suspect, raped and killed Ruth after she refused to sleep with him in Jos, the capital city of Plateau.

According to the accused, he sighted her alighting from a public bus late in the night after closing from work and followed her to a secluded area where he raped her after much struggling.

Stating that he had no reasons for that, the cuprite said, “I am here because I raped and killed someone. I don’t have any reason for what I did but I did it, it is just wickedness of the heart. That day, I just wanted to sleep with her but she refused, due to wickedness, I raped and killed her,” he narrated.

“I am a security guard at a filling station at Farin Gada. That day, I was on duty that night and I saw her passing at about 11 pm. I have never seen her before and I don’t know her but I called her and told her I wanted to sleep with her but she refused. I chased her and caught up with her. That was when I stabbed and raped her.

“She was not dead when I raped her, it is just wickedness of the heart. After I raped her, I picked up her phone and held it for one month. After that I sold it to Ephraim Emmanuel, I did not tell him where I got the phone from just that I told him that the phone is mine. The phone is a Redmi. I started working in the filling station in August 2022 and I was being paid N28,000.”

Emmanuel, who bought the phone stolen from the deceased, said,

“I bought the phone because I know him as my choirmaster. He did not tell me he was not the owner of the phone and I did not know the story behind the phone. The Police tracked the phone to me and arrested me so I told them who sold the phone to me.”