A
student union leader at Baze University, Abuja, Awwal Umar, has been
murdered by his friend, Abdullahi Bello, and a spiritualist, Lawal
Saleh, over N7m the deceased lent to Bello.
Bello was said to
have lured Umar, 26, who just got married, to Katsina State, where he
was attacked and killed by some hoodlums who hid in a bush to carry out
the dastardly act.
Parading the two suspects on Thursday in
Abuja, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inalegwu, explained that
Bello masterminded the murder after he could not pay back the N7m loan
he got from Umar.
According to him, Bello had earlier asked the
spiritualist to hypnotise Umar to forget the money, but the charm did
not work, as the student kept pestering him for his money.
He therefore resorted to planning how to kill Umar to avoid paying up the debt.
The
CP said, “On the October 2, when Awwal was just 33 days married, he
took his wife to the father in-law’s house and told them that he was
going to Keffi Road to purchase Sallah ram.
“He left in the
afternoon and by the evening, about 9.30 pm that day, he made his last
phone call to his parents that he had bought the ram and he was coming
back home. That was the last contact they had with him.
Inalegwu
said that through diligent investigation, detectives got Umar’s phone
log and made 12 arrests, adding that during interrogation, the
spiritualist confessed that he and Abdullahi killed the student leader.
The
CP said the Police had exhumed Umar’s corpse from the shallow grave
where he was buried, noting that the body had over 36 lacerations.
He
stated that Bello had repainted Umar’s car and converted it to his
personal use, noting that he used the loan to build a house, which the
police said they had also located.
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