The Kano State Police Command has taken into custody one man named, Sadiq Zubairu for reportedly killing his friend, Bello Adam, due to his failure to assist the deceased in obtaining a job after receiving N3 million.
New Telegraph gathered that Zubairu promised the late Adam, a former colleague at the Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDC), that he would assist him in getting a job with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Confirming his arrest, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Abdullahi on Thursday disclosed that on May 5, 2024, at exactly 10 a.m., the command received a notification from Adam’s brother that he was missing.
The police were alerted to the presence of a deceased male body in Bechi Village in the state’s Kumbotso Local Government Area.
The police, however, detained Zubairu the next day at 9 a.m. after conducting an inquiry.
The statement read, “On 05/05/2024 at about 10:00 am, report was received from a resident of Zawaciki Quarters in Kumbotso LGA, Kano State that his elder brother, Bello Bukar Adam, a KEDCO staff, aged 45 years old of Zawaciki Housing Estate, Kano had left his home with his Toyota Corolla motor vehicle, ash in colour since on 04/05/2024 and his whereabouts is unknown.
‘’On the evening of the same date, there was a report that the deceased body of a male adult had been discovered abandoned at the outskirts of Eastern Bypass, around Bechi Village in Kumbotso LGA, Kano State.
“The body was removed from the scene by a team of crime-scene policemen led by Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Kumbotso Division, SP Mustafa Abubakar, who brought the corpse to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, where a medical doctor certified the body dead.
“Accordingly, the team immediately swung into action and arrested one Sadiq Zubairu, aged 35 years old of Hotoron Arewa Quarters, Nassarawa LGA on 06/05/2024 at 9 a.m.”
The state PPRO added that after preliminary investigations, the suspect confessed to conspiring with two others to lure the victim to his house, where they were intimate friends until his murder.
“He narrated that he tied him up, and hit him with sticks and sharp iron on his head and other parts of his body until he became motionless.
“Thereafter, he loaded the motionless body inside the boot of the deceased’s vehicle, threw him off by the roadside along Eastern Bypass, around Bichi Village and left away with the motor vehicle, a Toyota Corolla, 2015 model including his mobile phone.
“The suspect further confessed that what led to this regrettable incident was after he deceitfully collected the sum of three million naira (N3,000,000:00) from him on the pretext that he would secure a job offer for him.
“But having realised that he had no means of returning the money to him, he hired two hefty guys, conspired with them, killed him and hid the motor vehicle at a garage in Hotoro Quarters, Kano. The vehicle has since been however recovered by the police.”
