The
suspected killers of kidnapped Colonel Samaila Inusa, yesterday opened up on
how they killed the later military officer.
The
suspects were paraded by Kaduna State Police Commissioner Adamu Ibrahim.
Col.
Inusa was abducted on the highway and taken away. His body was later found.
Prime
suspect Emeka Okeke, 44, told reporters that they did not originally plan to
kill the officer but he died during a struggle with the gun.
“Me
and my group specialise in car snatching, we are not kidnappers,” Okoke said.
Recounting
how they attacked the officer, whose identity they did not know, he said:
”One Sunday evening, we were on patrol to snatch any vehicle we
saw. It was in the process we saw Colonel Inusa’s vehicle coming from Police
College down to Refinery Junction and we collected the car.
“
We immediately handed over the car to Dan-Sokoto and he took it away. Then, we
took him to Abuja by-pass. I asked him to lie down and relax his mind, because
we were only interested in the car, not his life.
“I
told him, you are bigger than this car, and if you live, you will buy another
car’. Shortly after then, he said he wanted to drink water, so I went to the
car to bring pure water for him. As I bent down to give him the water, the man
snatched the gun from me and quickly removed the magazine.
“But
one bullet was already in the panel. So, he was holding the gun butt and I was
holding the mouth. So, we were dragging the gun. At a point, the gun was facing
me and he attempted to pull the trigger, but he could not do that and I
succeeded in turning the gun in his direction. He pulled the trigger and fired
himself.
“So,
I told him, you know I didn’t want to kill you, but you have killed yourself
now. But that man nearly killed me.” He said.
Asked
where his gang members were when he was dragging the gun with the Colonel,
Okeke said, they all ran away.
He
added that one week after, they started reading on the pages of newspapers and
on social media that the man they killed was a senior military officer.
Asked
how much they sold the car, Okeke said: “they gave us N800,000 and we shared.
Okeke
and his gang members – Kabir Ibrahim 23, Chijoke Ogwuanye 41 and Ekene Precious
43 – were tracked down in Gonin-Gora area of Kaduna.
Commissioner
of Police Adamu Ibrahim paraded other suspected car snatchers, armed robbers,
cattle rustlers and others.
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