How we killed DIG Ningi – Suspect
KANO—Salihu Goni, a family associate to assassinated Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Sale Abubakar Ningi, has owned up to masterminding the plot that led to Ningi’s murder in Kano three weeks ago.
Close relationship with late DIG
Goni, alias Kaka, told a team of crack detectives, during interrogation, that he shared close relationship with the late former police boss, stressing that the closeness put him at a vantage position to hatch and successfully execute the plot.
My benefactor
He said: “The late DIG had been my benefactor. He had helped me with money and food items during Salah celebrations and other festivities. I had been a constant visitor to his house and dined with the family several times.”
Ningi was assassinated along with a friend and his driver while returning from his factory at Dakata Sauna Kawaji Industrial layout, on the outskirts of the metropolis on June 5, by unknown gunmen on motorcycle.
Mor e suspects nabbed
The Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Idris revealed that further investigations had led to the arrest of several other suspects in connection with the murder of the late senior police officer.
He also said that one Muhammed Tahir, 22, was arrested at Dandishe Kurna Asabe quarters, adding that three cans of Improvised Explosives Devices, IEDs, were recovered from his tailoring shop.
Bayero University attack
He noted that the suspect also confessed during interrogation to have conspired with several others to launch attack at the Bayero Univerity Kano, BUK, worship centre April 29, adding that the he also confessed killing a Chief Supreintendent of Customs and Staff of Department of State Security, DSS, in Kano penultimate week.
The Police commissioner said, “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.’’
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