A 25-year-old armed robbery suspect, Shuaibu Rabi, has claimed in a video obtained by the Punch on Thursday that he took part in the killing of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.), saying he and his gang murdered him because they wanted to rob him.
Rabi made the claim while he was reportedly interrogated by policemen in Hausa language.
According to him, he and his friends received information that Badeh was in possession of a huge sum of money which he wanted to use in paying for a parcel of land in Nasarawa State.
The suspect said, “What happened was that, on a certain day, my elder brother went to a market, where he met with one Churuma. Churuma told him that he got information that an old soldier (Badeh) wanted to buy a parcel of land but would be buying the land in cash.
“He said we would trail the soldier on that day and we would block him and collect the money. So, on that day, when we saw him coming Churuma signalled to us that it was him. Some of us stayed behind his vehicle in case he would want to reverse while Churuma stayed in front.
“But when he (Badeh) saw Churuma with a gun, he did not do like he wanted to reverse, he attempted to hit Churuma with his car but Churuma dodged to the side and then opened fire on him.
“After that, we opened the car and found a bag of money and went with it. When they opened the bag, the money was beyond what I had ever seen before.”
Badeh was killed on December 18, 2018 while returning from his farm between Koso and Kugwaru communities.
The former CDS’ four military guards, who provided security, were said to have been a few kilometres away when he was killed.
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