The family of the late Chief of
Air Staff, Alex Badeh has reacted to the confession by suspected killers of the
deceased that they killed him to seize alleged huge sums of money he had on him
to buy farmland.
Recall that 25-year-old Shuaibu
Rabo while being interrogated by Police, said Badeh was killed in an attack to rob
him of money meant for the purchase of a new farmland.
Rabo, while explaining how the
incident happened, said: “One day, Yaya went to Gitata market and met Ciroma
who gave him a hint that the retired general (Badeh) had bought new farmland
and he was bringing the money on a particular day.”
But reacting, the family
described the confession as a lie, adding that Badeh did not discuss any issue
about the acquisition of land neither was he with up to N500 on the day he was
killed.
According to Vanguard, the family
delegated only one member to speak, on the condition that his or her name will
not be mentioned in the report.
The spokesman said, “We are not
happy with the report being put out to the public there on the circumstances
that led to his death.
“We as a family, believe that
some people responsible for his death want to deceive the public by hiding the
facts of what happened, how it happened and those responsible.
“I want to emphatically tell you
here that contrary to the claim that he went to his farm on the fateful day
with huge amount of money to buy additional farmland, there was nothing like
that.
“In fact, he had no money on him
that day, not even N500 in the vehicle. “As I told you, no money, I repeat, no
money was in that vehicle. Not even N500 was in that vehicle on that day he was
killed.
“I repeat that no N500 not even
N1000 was in that motor he drove that he was killed that day.
“Before his death, a villager who
knew he was on the farm that day went to meet him to get money to buy
paracetamol tablet for his headache he could not afford the money for him.
Instead, he asked the person if he could go to Panda Market.
“When the man said he could, our
brother told him to pick 10 mudus (measured quantity) of maize to sell in the
market and buy drug for himself, saying that was the only help he could render
to him since he had no cash to give out.
“He took time to narrate to the
person that as he was talking to him, there was a huge refuse dump at his house
in Abuja and the people responsible for packing it, that is the Abuja
Environmental Protection Board, had refused to do so because he had no money to
pay for the packing.
“He added that his cook and the
cleaner in his house had not been paid, explaining further that those were the
reasons he went to farm on that day to pick some bags of harvested maize, like
100 bags, to sell so as to raise money to settle those issues.
“Again, he told his workers on
the farm that since they have blocked his pension, his only source of getting
money, only three out of the eight working for him can remain as he wouldn’t
have money to pay all the eight anymore.
“He said ‘I’m sorry to tell you
this but this is the reality, I can only retain three workers now, the five of
you have to go so that I won’t be owing you salaries. He said I can be selling
maize and be paying salary for the three that I will retain.
“He did not have N500 on that day
they killed him, I swear to God. All this you are hearing is a cook-up story.
“He went to farm to pick some
bags of corn to sell so that he could raise money to pay the workers on the
farm, the cook and cleaner in the house as well as for the packing of refuse
dump here in the house.
“You can see the huge refuse dump
here near the wall. If you see this refuse, they had to shift it from this wall
closer to the primary school there because of the odour oozing out from the
waste bins. You can see the dustbins there (pointed to it).
“So where did they get the
information they released to the public from?”
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Why is our retired Generals been killed like chicken under this government of APC?
ReplyDeleteNa wa o o o o, this government na serious headache to Nigerians, Na so so lie lie them sabi
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