Man Kills Friend 33 Days After His Wedding Over N7m

A 26-year old student union leader, Awwal Unar has been killed in a gruesome manner by his friend, Bello who he borrowed some money.

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ThisDay reports that Awwal Unar, who is a Baze University student union leader borrowed his friend, Bello a N7 million loan which was agreed to be paid back over a period of time but each time he demanded for refund, Bello would come up with one form of excuse or the other.

However, when the pressure was getting too unbearable for Bello, he decided to contact a spiritualist, one Lawal Saleh in Katsina, who gave him some concoctions that would make Awwal forget about the money. Unfortunately, the fetish concoction did not work as the pressure for the money to be paid continued. This however made Bello to want to end it totally once and for all.

Bello, when paraded by the Federal Capital Territory Police in Abuja, confessed to have contacted the same spiritualist in Katsina, who gave him the idea of permanently ending the  ‘embarrassment’ since he could not hypnotize Awwal.

According to the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Wilson Inalegwu,

”Awwal used to be a student of Baze University in Abuja. He was an elected student union leader and was aged 26. On the 2nd of October when he was just 33 days married, he took his wife to the father in law’s house and told them that he was going to Keffi Road to purchase Sallah Ram.

He left in the afternoon and by the evening, about 9.30 pm that day he made his last phone call to his parents that he had bought the ram and he was coming back home. That was the last contact they had with him. The parents became worried. So, on the third day, they got a mysterious phone call from an individual by the name Suleiman, that he found the phone by the side of Awwal. So the father got worried and of course, the wife.

On the 6th of October, a call was made directly to this command and we got our crack team to set the motion for investigation. From the call log and all that, we made arrest. When we made arrest, we discovered that one Abdullahi who was staying in the same house with this Awwal, had over a period of time, collected about N7m from Awwal and couldn’t pay back.

He now engaged a spiritualist to divert the attention of Awwal from demanding for his money but the Juju couldn’t work. Awwal continued to demand for his money. So Abdullahi came with a plot. He told Awwal that he gave the money to a spiritualist in Kankara, Katsina State, and that they should go there so that they can double the money and he’ll get his money. Unknown to Awwal, a plan had been hatched to kill
him.”

Awwal was said to have taken his car, a Toyota Yari, and drove Abdullahi from Abuja to Katsina.“He had told his wife and relations that he was going to Keffi, but he never went to Keffi. He drove straight to Zaria, spent the night in Zaria and continued to Katsina and to Kankara. When they got there, Abdullahi and the spiritualist had engaged some individuals for the criminal job. So, they drove Awwal to a stream. This time, it was getting late at about 7.30 and there as they alighted from his car, some people already waiting in the bush, sprang out and started to beat him.

They used machete and sticks, on him until his last breath. So, when they killed him, nobody knew, everybody thought he would still be alive. But through diligent investigation, we got our crack team of detectives and the phone log and all the rest, we started making arrests. We made 12 arrests. From the arrest, through interrogation, the spiritualist confessed that indeed, Abdullahi had brought Awwal and they killed him,” Inalegwu said.

The suspects told police where they had buried Awwal in a shallow grave and took police operatives to recover the mutilated body which the police said had over 36 lacerations. The CP said a post mortem was conducted on the deceased before he was buried.

Meanwhile, Abdullahi was said to have converted Awwal’s car and repainted it for his personal use. He also used the proceeds of the loan to build a house which the police said they have also located.”

The CP however advised parents to know the company that their wards keep, adding the police were closing in on Suleiman who made a phone call and other people that hide in the bush to cause this mayhem. The suspects have however confessed to the crime.

It would be recalled that just recently, a 26-year old man, Paul Adelakun was arrested by the police at Ikotun division for attacking his neighbour, Victor Torlowei who he forced to eat his feaces in Lagos.