From Shettima Abdullahi, Kaduna.
Remember the Kaduna Col,, Inusa Samaila who was kidnapped on March 26, 2016 along NNPC road in Kaduna? His suspected murderer, Emeka Okeke, has been apprehended and told the media how he killed the Army officer in a struggle and sold the victim’s car for N800, 000.
Hear him: “One Sunday evening, we were on patrol, any motor we see, we will snatch. It was in the process we saw Colonel Inusa’s motor from Police College down to Refinery Junction where we collected the car.
“Immediately, we 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 are only interested in the car, not his life.
“I told him, you are bigger than this car, and if you leave 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 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 attempted to pull the trigger, but he could do that I succeeded in turning the gun to his direction. He pulled the trigger and fired himself.
“So, I told him, you see I didn’t want to kill you, but you have killed yourself now. But, that man nearly killed me.”
When he was queried where his gang members were when him and the colonel were dragging the gun, Okeke said, “they all ran away.
“We were not assassins. We didn’t know he was even a military officer. It was like a week after we killed the colonel that we started reading on the pages of newspapers and on social media that the man we killed was a senior military officer. Me and my group specialised in car snatching, we are not kidnappers. The buyer gave us N800,000 and we shared it,” he stressed.
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