Grace Chalya Silas: Kaduna police declare manhunt for killers of corps member

The Kaduna State Police Command has officially confirmed the gruesome murder of Grace Chalya Silas, a member of the National Youth Service Corps, by unidentified attackers in the state.

In an exclusive conversation with The PUNCH, ASP Mansir Hassan, the Command’s spokesperson, disclosed that the state’s Police Commissioner, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, has ordered a concerted effort to track down the culprits responsible for the Corps member’s death.

Chalya Silas, who was in the midst of her one-year mandatory national service in the state, tragically lost her life while out for her morning jog in Barnawa, within the Kaduna South Local Government Area, on Wednesday.

Devastated friends and fellow students from the University of Jos expressed their grief on Facebook.

One of them, Comfort Elisha, wrote on her Facebook handle, “No na. What is really happening to Jossite and the Special Education department? We haven’t finished mourning Kekefas Emmanuel, and now it’s Chalya, brutally killed in Kaduna during her morning jogging while serving her fatherland. May your killers know no peace Chalya. This is too much to bear.”

However,  the Kaduna Command’s Public Relations Officer,  ASP Mansir Hassan, while confirming the incident to The PUNCH, described the death of the Corps member as “tragic”.

Hassan said the Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, after an emergency meeting of the top hierarchy of the command, had ordered the Barnawa Divisional Police Officer and operatives to hunt for the killers of the Corps member.