Kano: How Notorious Killer Voluntarily Submitted Himself

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The Kano State Police Command on Wednesday April 16, 2025, informed that serial killer, and one of the ancient city’s dreaded criminals, Umar Auwal, is now in its custody.

A statement from the Command’s spokesperson, Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said 20-year old Auwal, popular as Abba Dujal, who have confessed to masterminding countless high profile killings and criminal activities within Kano and Jigawa States, voluntarily turned himself in.

This is  as the State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Bakori, called on other criminals to consider following  Auwal’s footsteps.

His surrender, however, was said to be a product of intense clearance operations targeting some identified equally high risk criminal enclaves across Kano.

The clampdown on the identified criminal hot spots, Kiyawa noted, is part of a wider ongoing effort aimed at ridding the State of criminal elements and their activities.

“Auwal turned himself in. and admitted to his crimes  during the operation”, the Police Spokesman noted.

According to Kiyawa, Auwal, during interrogation, confessed to being involved in several cases of culpable homicide, armed robbery and theft of motorcycles, and mobile phones in different locations in the State.

Auwal, a resident of Wudil local council of the state, was said  to have admitted stabbing and killing a man popular as “Boka”, in the Sabon Gari area of Kano metropolis, after snatching his infinix Hot 40 IPhone.

He later disposed of the phone for a paltry N40,000, the police stated.

In the same vein, Auwal confessed to have snuffed life out of one other person in the densely populated Kurna Quarters in Ungogo local council of the state after also snatching the victim’s Samsung S26 phone which he, subsequently, sold for N160,000.

In one of  his dastardly interstate operations, Auwal said he killed a man in Ringim town, Jigawa state, stole his motorcycle, and disposed of it at the cost of N300,000.

The Police spokesman assured that Auwal, who is  presently cooling his heels in custody, will be prosecuted as soon as investigations are concluded.

CP Bakori lauded Auwal for surrendering himself after all the bouts of criminal activities.

He advised other criminal elements to embrace peace, shun criminal activities.