A University of Jos student, Peter Mafuyai, has been allegedly killed by his colleague, identified simply as Nanpon Timnan, in their off-campus apartment at Rusau Village in the Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State.
PUNCH Metro learnt from a video posted on Facebook by Happy Londi that the deceased was a 300-level student of the Department of Banking and Finance.
Londi added that Nanpon Timnan is a 200-level student of Agricultural Science.
“A student known as Nanpon Timnan, a 200 level student of Agricultural science, is alleged to have killed another student, Peter Mafuyai, a 300 level student of the Department of Banking and Finance in the same University of Jos,” she wrote.
In a video attached to the post, the lifeless body of the deceased was placed in an ambulance as medical personnel covered it with a purple cloth.
In another video sighted by PUNCH Metro on Facebook and posted by Mc Pee, a male adult believed to be a student of the institution was seen narrating what transpired.
According to him, the deceased allegedly begged for his life before he was eventually killed by the suspect.
“Nanpon already cut Peter on his jaw while he was begging for his life. When we also intervened that he should stop, he threatened to machete any one of us who dared come close to him.
When Peter realised that he did not answer, he still threw his arms around him, held him tight, and kept begging him.
“That was when we went outside to seek help, but nobody answered us. So while Peter tried to escape, he fell, and Nanpon caught up with him and kept hacking him with the machete. “
A security and counter-insurgency expert in a post on X on Sunday stated that the suspect had been arrested by operatives of the Plateau State Police Command.
He quoted sources as confirming the incident in a report from the institution’s Chief Security Officer.
