The joint investigative panel set
up to probe the death of Alex Badeh, former chief of defence staff, says the
killing has not political undertone.
Bamidele Shafa, leader of the
panel, disclosed this while parading 15 suspects alleged to be involved in the
crime, at the Mogadishu cantonment in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The panel was set up by Gabriel
Olonisakin, chief of defence staff.
Badeh had died from gunshot
wounds sustained in an attack while returning from his farm along Abuja-Keffi
road in December 2018.
Shafa said after the panel’s
investigation, 20 suspects were arrested in connection with the crime but 15
were being paraded for their “direct action” in the killing.
He said the suspects were grouped
into key suspects, circumstantial suspects, and accomplices.
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He noted that the panel visited
the scene of the incident, searched the homes of the suspects where one AK-47
rifle, one dane gun, and other weapons were recovered.
“The attack and killing of air
chief marshal Alex Badeh on 18 December 2018, was criminal and does not have
any political undertone,” Shafa said.
“The 15 suspects in custody
confessed to their direct involvement in the crime. The suspects employed
automatic weapons and locally-made guns in the attack and killing of air chief
marshal Alex Badeh.
“This was buttressed by the
result of the autopsy examination and weapons recovered from the residence of
the suspects.”
He listed some of the arrested
suspects as Aliyu Usman, “ring leader of the gang”; Shuaibu Rabo, second in
command; Yahaya Nuhu and Alhaji Lamido Tahara, as third in command.
Shafa added that the suspects
also admitted to having kidnapped one Joseph Okpetu, an engineer who was with
the late Badeh, and received N2 million as ransom before his release.
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