Eight persons suspected to be involved with the murder of a lecturer from the Department of Physical Health Education at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) have been arrested.
The spokesperson of the Borno State police command, ASP Daso Kenneth, revealed that the suspects were arrested following a report filed by the Chief Security Officer of the university.
Kenneth said “he reported to the police station around 6:30 am that a body was found in the office, and identified as Dr. Abdulkadir Kamal.
“Our men swung into action immediately, cordoned off the scene of the crime, and evacuated the body to hospital for autopsy.
“Although we arrested eight suspects who are in our custody, investigations are ongoing to unravel those behind the act,” Kenneth said.
Kenneth told the people within and outside the university community to be calm as police would fish out the culprits.
The university’s spokesman, Prof. Danjuma Gambo, said Dr Abdulkadir was murdered in his office on Sunday evening when he was attending to some pending work when the assailants attacked and killed him.
Gambo said the authorities have granted full authority to the police and other security agencies to conduct a thorough investigation and provide a detailed report on the incident and its motives.
A lecturer in the faculty said the deceased took advantage of the Easter holiday to tidy up some work on his table when the assailants crept in and murdered him.
“He was brutally murdered with knife and hammer, leaving him in the pool of his blood. They also escaped with his car and some other valuables.
“However, many people are attributing the murder to the position he held as the faculty examination officer,” he added.
