The police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have arrested four suspects in connection with the killing of a retired Army General during an armed robbery attack.
The Guardian reports that the national chairman of the Retired Members of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Brig. Gen. Harold Udokwere, was attacked and killed by a three-man armed robbery gang in his house in the Kubusa area of the FCT.
Following the incident, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Bennett Igweh, ordered a probe into the general’s death.
The arrested suspects are (1) Ibrahim Rabiu ‘m’ 33 yrs old from Dala LGA Kano state but resident at Rasha Apo Roundabout (2) Nafiu Jamil ‘m’ 33 yrs old from Tofa LGA Kano, but resident at Apo Pantekar (3) Aliyu Abdullahi ‘m’ 47 yrs old from Shinkafi LGA of Zamfara state but resident at Apo Roundabout Abuja (4) Mohammed Nuhu ‘m’ 28 yrs old from Kumbotso LGA Kano state but resident at Apo primary school.
The suspects according to the police have all confessed to the heinous crimes of murder and armed robbery of the late General. They stated that during the armed robbery incident, they murdered the Gen. to prevent him from harming them with the pistols he brought out to defend himself but couldn’t effectively manipulate it.
They also confessed to have stolen Laptops, and phones among other valuables from the deceased home. As fate would have, the knife with which they stabbed him to death was recovered. The deceased black GSM phone ‘Redmi’ was also recovered.
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