19th October, 2023
The Kaduna State Police Command has narrated how a National Youth Service Corps member, Grace Chalya Silas was brutally stabbed to death in Kaduna State.
Grace was stabbed to death on Wednesday morning in Barnawa area of Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria.
The command’s spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan described the corps member’s death a very tragic, saying that she was performing her early morning jogging when some miscreants on motorcycles pounced on her.
Hassan said Grace Chalya Silas was a Corps member serving in Kaduna South.
He explained that when 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.
Hassan added that she was rushed to the clinic, where she was later confirmed dead.
According to him, since 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.
He said the command was already in touch with NYSC in the state, disclosing that the Commissioner of Police had directed the Barnawa DPO and Area Commander, to immediately hunt for killers of the Corps member and fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act.