Police unveils nephew of murdered journalist as prime suspect in Zamfara state
The Zamfara State Police Command has unveiled identity of the prime suspect in the killing of a veteran journalist Hamisu Danjibga, and his body thrown into a septic tank behind his house in Gusau, the State capital
Penpushing reports that the Commissioner of Police Mohammed Dalijan, paraded the suspect, Mansur Haruna, a nephew of the deceased who in his confessional statement said he committed the crime because his uncle did not stand as guarantor when he wanted to join the Nigerian Army.
The police boss added that the suspect also accused the late former staff of Voice of Nigeria (VON) of not facilitating his enrollment into the army, having insisted that he was not in tune with his(suspect) unsatisfactory character.
Penpushing further reports that the Commissioner of Police disclosed that Haruna, was arrested alongside his friend and accomplice, Ibrahim Nababa, while it is recalled that Danjibga, was declared missing last month before his body was recovered from a septic tank.
The commissioner while parading the suspects at the police command in Gusau on Tuesday, said the slain journalists was stabbed several times by the suspects, adding that the prime suspect confessed to the murder.
Penpushing also reports that Dalijan said the prime suspect confessed that their plan was to abduct Danjibga, but resorted to killing, when he tried to overpower them, and that the journalist was stabbed thrice with a knife before Nababa used a cutlass to cut him twice on the head.
‘The prime suspect is the son of Danjibga’s elder brother. He lived with the late Danjibga here in Gusau. He had wanted to join the Nigerian Army but Alhaji Danjibga said: ‘No, with the type of criminal tendencies I’m seeing in you, I’ll never be a guarantor for you to join the Nigerian Army’, the commissioner stated.
‘Alhaji Danjibga sent him out of his house and he went to stay with his friend Ibrahim Nababa. It was at the friend’s house they planned how to kidnap Danjibga. When they finished the plan, they went to his house and when they met him, they wanted to take him away from the house but he resisted’.
‘He said: ‘You, my son, it is you that want to do this kind of a thing to me. I am not going anywhere’. It was at that particular point the boy brought out a knife and stabbed him three times in the chest. His friend carried a cutlass and cut him two times on his head. He fell there instantly and died. They carried his body and put it inside a soakaway in an Islamiyya school’, Dalijan said.
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