Late  Sale Abubakar Ningi

 

Ibrahim Shuaibu

Family and associates of the recently assassinated Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Mr. Sale Abubakar Ningi, were Tuesday taken aback when one Salihu Goni,  during interrogation by a team of detectives from the Kano State Police Command, allegedly owned up as the mastermind of the plot that led his death along with two others in Kano three weeks ago.

 

Goni, also known as Kaka, was said to have told a team of police detectives during interrogation that he shared close relationship with the late former police boss, stressing that the closeness put him at vantage to hatch and successfully execute the plot.

“The late DIG Ningi has been my benefactor, he had helped me with money, food items during Salah celebrations and other festivities, and had been a constant visitor to the house, and severally I wine and dined with the family,” Goni confessed.

 

Explaining how he hatched the heinous act, the suspect, who was picked up by the police at Hotoro Haye in Kano metropolis, confessed that he monitored the Ningi’s movement and alerted one Gana Bukar, also in police custody, to lay ambush with one other person now at large.

Ningi, alongside his friend and driver, were murdered, while returning from his factory at Dakata Sauna Kawaji Industrial Layout, an outskirt of Kano metropolis on June 5 by suspected gunmen who rode on motorcycle.

 

Addressing journalists on the development, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, said further investigation had led to the arrest of other suspects in connection with the murder of the late senior police officer.

He disclosed that one Muhammed Tahir, 22, was arrested at Dandishe Kurna Asabe quarters, adding that three cans of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were recovered from his shop.

 

The commissioner noted that the suspect also confessed during interrogation to have conspired with several others to launch an attack at the Bayero University Kano
(BUK) worship centre on April 29. also confessed killing a Customs and SSS officers.

“We have widened our dragnet and robust investigation is ongoing and we will do our best to get to the root of the heinous crime in the state,” the police commissioner stated.

-The Nation

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