I Was Given N5,000 To K*ll Medical Doctor – Suspect Says

AISHA ABUBAKAR

Police operatives from Zamfara State Police Command have arrested and paraded one of the suspects, Abubakar Namaliki, who was part of the gang that gruesomely murdered Dr. Enoch Okpara, a gynecologist attached to Federal Medical Centre in Gusau, the state capital.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the arrested suspect said that he was given N5,000 by the bandits leader to commit the gruesome murder and he carried it oiut as directed.

This was disclosed at the State Police Command on Monday by the  Commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Nagogo, who explained that the suspected killer was arrested on Sunday night in a forest.
According to the State Police boss, a team of policemen attached to Operation Puff Adder responded to a distress call, saying that they rushed to the forest where the suspect was apprehended.
“It could be recalled that on June 13, 2020, unidentified armed bandits invaded the house of the gynecologist and gruesomely murdered and burnt Dr. Enoch Okpara at his residence in Gusau, the state capital” he said.

Nagogo explained that many people were giving various insinuations, stressing that the Police since then commenced a serious manhunt for the perpetrators.
The Commissioner said that in the course of investigation, the Police discovered that one Abubakar Namaliki was one of the prime suspects who allegedly masterminded the murder of the medical doctor in his residence.

Speaking further, he explained that after much and careful investigation, the suspect revealed that himself and four others committed the dastardly act.
He noted that the suspect gave the names of Alhaji Shehu Bagewaye, a notorious bandits leader, IroTsoho, DanHajiya, alias Smally, Auwali Banawa and Muhammed Jansaidi.
Nagogo explained that the suspect had made some confessional statements, admitting that he actually took part in the inhuman act.

When interviewed by newsmen at the Command, Abubakar Namaliki, the arrested suspect, said that he was given N5,000 only by the bandits leader to commit the gruesome murder.

The CP said that the Police were making every efforts to arrest other suspects now at large while the suspect will be charged before the Court for murder which attracts life imprisonment if he is tried and found guilty.