The Nigerian army says it has
located the grave where Muhammed Alkali, a missing general, was buried.
B. A. Akinruluyo, general officer
commanding, 3 division, Rukuba barracks, made the disclosure at a press
briefing on Friday.
Akinruluyo said some of the
suspects arrested in connection with the incident confessed that the body of
the deceased was exhumed and reburied.
Alkali was the immediate past
chief of administration of the Nigerian Army. He was declared missing on
September 3 when he was traveling from Abuja to Bauchi state.
The deceased had just retired
from the army after 35 years.
“You would recall that on 2
September 2018 at about 8:00pm, unknown gunmen attacked a shopping complex
located at Lafande Community on the outskirt of Jos metropolis in Dura-Du
District of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State,” he said.
“As a result of the attack, 11
people were killed while others sustained various degrees of injuries. The
attack triggered protest by the people of the area on the morning of 3
September 2018. Irate youths in their hundreds trooped out, blocked the Eastern
Bypass with stones and other dangerous objects. The immediate past Chief of
Administration (Army), Major General Idris Alkali who recently disengaged from
the Nigerian Army after 35 years meritorious service to the Nigerian Army and
the country was travelling from Abuja to Bauchi via Jos same day.
“The senior officer was
travelling alone in his black Toyota Corolla car with registration number,
KWARA MUN 670 AA. Credible intelligence revealed that his car was stopped and
he introduced himself as a general to the hoodlums who had barricaded the road
that he was just passing through to Bauchi.
“The senior officer was assaulted
and killed. Thereafter, his belongings such as clothings, cash, phones and
laptop were shared by those who killed him. His body was dragged before being
moved to somewhere else and his car was driven and pushed into the abandoned
mining pit filled with water. The irate youths who followed his car to the
abandoned mining pit filled with water on many tri-cycles popularly known as
“Keke NAPEP” jubilated for reason best known to them or for mission
accomplished. He was later buried in a shallow grave in an area popularly known
as, “No man’s land” within the community.
“Please note that 4 different
sources not known to each other at various times took us to the opened shallow
grave where the senior officer was earlier buried but subsequently removed.
Furthermore, sniffer dogs that have been cultured with the personal effects of
the senior officer led us to the same opened shallow grave. That was the only
grave we were led to by different people and sniffer dogs. We did not go to any
other grave as the operation was carried out based on credible intelligence.
Like I always say, the cordon and search operation is intelligence driven and
that is why the operation has been conducted in line with international best
practices and respect for human rights. This further explains why the Division
did not clamp down on the entire community. Only the perpetrators are being
targeted.
“At this point, let me reiterate
that all the actors involved in this dastardly act who are still at large are
known to us. All efforts are being made to get them arrested and be brought to
justice as their photographs and personal details are with the relevant
security agencies. The cordon and search operation conducted by own troops has
really exposed the heinous crimes being committed by the few but fully
supported and concealed by the entire community. I want to commend members of
the public for their cooperation and still solicit for anyone with credible
information on where the senior officer was reburied. It is the civic
responsibility of the Dura-Du community to produce the corpse of the deceased
senior officer and those who were involved in the killing of the senior officer.”
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