The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command has paraded the killers of a retired general of the Nigerian Army, the late Gen Uwem Udukwere (rtd) in Abuja.
Udukwere was killed by suspected armed robbers who invaded his private residence at Sunshine Estate, Lokogoma, Abuja, in the early hours of Saturday.
The police commissioner in the FCT, CP Benneth Igweh, while parading the suspects at the command in Abuja, on Monday, said two among the robbers, who are now at large, escaped with the deceased’s pistol.
The arrested suspects are Ibrahim Rabiu, 33; Nafiu Jamil, 33; Aliyu Abdullahi, 47; and Mohammed Nuhu, 28.
It was gathered that the suspects confessed to the crime after their arrest.
They reportedly claimed that they murdered the late Udukwere to prevent him from harming them when he tried to defend himself with his pistol.
Some of the items recovered from the suspects were the knife they used to stab him to death as well as the deceased’s GSM phone.
Igweh said the command also arrested kidnappers terrorising the FCT.
He said on May 6, officers acting on intelligence arrested Isa Mohammed, 30 (an escapee of Kuje prison break in 2022), and his brother, Nasiru Mohammed, also known as Danger.
The commissioner said the suspects are members of the “kidnapping syndicate” who kidnapped 17 people in an estate in the Dei Dei area of the FCT and collected a “huge ransom” before releasing the victims.
Igweh said several informants and logistics suppliers to kidnappers were arrested, while weapons were also recovered from them.
He said the informants include Sunday Musa, also known as Dan Gwari, 30; Ruqqaya Ibrahim, 41; Musa Idris, aka Dogo, 20; Aminu Ibrahim; Zainnu Abubakar, 30; and Yahaya Abubakar, 20.
The police commissioner further said on June 18 and 19, operatives of the command attached to Utako and Kubwa police divisions, in a joint operation in Agena, Abaji, and Chikara, Kogi State bordering FCT, arrested Umar Adamu, aka Walejo, 42; and Abdulrahman Abubakar, aka Juli, 35.
He said Adamu is a “notorious and wanted informant and logistic supplier to bandits”.
“He supplies ammunition to kidnappers in Nasarawa, Abuja, Kogi, and Kaduna state. He is also the commander of the Fulani Miyetti vigilante in Abuja,” the police commissioner said.
Igweh said Abubakar was arrested in connection with the alleged kidnapping along the Abuja/Kogi road, where travelling Hummer buses were hijacked and the occupants kidnapped.
The commissioner said the suspects would soon be charged in court.
