A teenage schoolboy in Adamawa State, Abdullahi Abba, has died after alleged torture by operatives of a security taskforce over a stolen phone.
The 17-year-old SSS 2 student was allegedly manhandled by members of Operation Farauta, a taskforce comprising military and police personnel mandated to check kidnapping and robbery activities around the state.
Abdullahi Abba was arrested last Saturday, August 5, after a neighbour complained to the taskforce over a missing phone.
The taskforce allegedly seized him, beat him till he lost consciousness, and he was taken to hospital.
A lawyer to the family, Abubakar Diram, who took the matter up, said Abdullahi died after four days in a coma.
According to the lawyer, a mobile phone was stolen in the neighbourhood and a boy claimed that he took the phone and gave it to Abdullahi.
