The decomposed body of a staff of
the World Health Organisation (WHO), Zamfara State office, Bello
Abdullahi Kaura, who was allegedly killed by a soldier and a police
Inspector about three months ago, has been discovered.
Impeccable source at the WHO office, who pleaded for anonymity, told the
Nigerian Tribune, that the deceased was murdered after he was
dispossesed of N2.8 million which was meant to cover the expenses of the
July immunisation exercise in Anka Local Government Area of the state.
Source said that when the deceased collected the money, he brought the money home and informed his co-tenants (the soldier and a police inspector) about it.
Findings revealed that the next day, which was the day
of the immunisation exercise, the deceased failed to report at his duty
post, unknown to his colleagues, he was cajoled by his killers to an
unknown destination.
Findings by the Nigerian Tribune
revealed that the deceased was taken to a bush along Anka-Gummi Road by
his murderers where he was killed.His car was stolen and sold for
N800,000, while his cell phone, was sold for N3,000, to a teenager in
Anka town.
However, nemesis caught up with the alleged murderers, when one of the
relations of the deceased discovered that someone was still using the cell phone of the deceased through the anti-theft device, which the deceased had programmed with his number.
Security operatives were then alerted and subsequently, the user of the phone, the soldier and the police officer, were all apprehended.
In the cause of investigation, the embattled soldier and the police took
the security operatives to the scene of the incident and the decomposed
body of the deceased was discovered.
When contacted, the Commanding Officer of the 232 Battalion, Gusau
Lieutenant Colonel U.B. Onachukwu, confirmed the incident but he added
that investigation is still ongoing by combined security operatives of
the police, State Security and the military.
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