Suspected Killers Of Sommie, Arise TV’s News Anchor, Arrested

By Adesina Soyooye

Just as the funeral rites for Arise Television’s News Anchor, Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu is about to begin, the Police Command, Abuja, has arrested 12 of the suspected armed robbers who attacked her Unique Apartments, Katampe residence, an attack which led to her tragic death after she jumped from the balcony of her apartment to escape them. They were 15 in number, according to reports.

The attack, also, led to the death of a security guard, Barnabas Danlami who was shot to death by the robbers. He was buried last Saturday.

In a post on its Website on Thursday, Arise Television disclosed that the arrest of the 12 suspects is a product of an operation led by the Scorpion Squad under the FCT Command, based on intelligence provided by a forensics firm, Giga Forensics, a subsidiary of EIB  STRATOC.

The Scorpion Squad of the FCT Police Command which made the heartwarming arrest, was led by ACP Victor Godfrey.

After the the September 29, 2025 attack which occurred around 3:30 a.m, the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, ordered a manhunt for the arrest of the hoodlums, and promised they would be apprehended.

‎The suspects are

• ‎Shamsudeen Hassan ‘m’ from Malumfashi LGA Katsina state
• Hassan Isah ‘m’, 22 years from Zaria kaduna State
• Abubakar Alkamu a.k.a. abba ‘m’, 27 years from Musawa LGA katsina state
• Sani Sirajo a.k.a. dan borume ‘m’ 20 years from Malumfashi LGA katsina state
• Mashkur Jamilu a.k.a. abba ‘m’ 28 years from Igabi LGA kaduna state
• Suleiman Badamasi a.k.a. dan-sule ‘m’ 21 years from Malumfashi LGA katsina state
• Abdul Salam saleh a.k.a. na-durudu ‘m’ from katsina lga katsina State
• Zaharadeen Muhammad a.k.a. gwaska ‘m’ 23 years from chikun lga kaduna state
• Musa adamu a.k.a. musa hassan ‘m’ 30 years from malumfashi lga katsina state
• Sumayya Mohammed a.k.a. baby ‘m’ 27 years from Sammaka LGA, Kaduna state
• Isah Abdulrahman a.k.a. abbati ‘m’, 25 years from Zaria LGA, Kaduna state
• Musa Umar a.k.a. small ‘m’ 31 years from Maiduguri LGA Borno state.

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‎Meanwhile, Sommie will be laid to rest in her native hometown, Agulu, Anambra State on Saturday, October 18, 2025. She was a Lawyer and a former Beauty Queen and lived in the United Kingdom before she came back to Nigeria and joined Arise Television in 2024.