Briefing newsmen yesterday at the Police Command Headquarters, the police public relations officer, DSP El-Mustapha Sani said the incident happened on the 15th of September but they got the report on the 18th and effected the arrest on the 19th of September, 2014.
According to El-Mustapha, the deceased was said to have been called for a meeting by his agent, Bello Ubandawaki who resides in Kwanawa area of Sokoto metropolis on the 15th only to be killed and buried in his house.
Parading the suspects, the PPRO said the police swung into action after getting the complaint from the late director’s wife that her husband had not been seen for three days.
“Police swung into action and went to Bello Ubandawaki’s house, and discovered a newly dug hole cemented in his bedroom; the police dug it and found the corpse and exhumed it. On further investigation, we also arrested some of his accomplices who include Musbau Musa also known as Shagon Dankikiya, Yunusa Ibrahim, Aliyu Sani, Luba Salihu and Fatima Shehu”.
The PPRO, however, noted that Luba Salihu is said to be a friend to the deceased while Fatima Shehu is the wife of the principal suspect, Bello Ubandawaki who happens to be one of the children of the Kwanawa village head, Alhaji Dabadda Ubandawaki.
The deceased, before his death, was said to have trusted Bello Ubandawaki as his agent to help him acquire some landed properties within the suburb of the metropolis, Kwanawa, where his father is the village head.
It was gathered that Bello was given no less than N3.5million to help purchase the landed properties, but he failed to deliver and rather resorted to inviting the director for a meeting, only to kill and bury him in his house