FORMER Gwaram Local Government Chairman Alhaji Auwalu Sule Kila is an accused in the murder of three year old Zaiban Tanimu Ayuba of Dazara village, police said in Jigawa yesterday. The state police commissioner Alhaji Abdullahi S. Fana, who disclosed this to Daily Trust yesterday also confirmed the arrest of three other suspects including the prime suspect, one Abubakar, a stranger who lives in the same house with late Zainab for one month before she was killed.
Auwalu, was a House of Representatives member from Gwaram constituency. He is currently at large according to the police commissioner.
The commissioner who confirmed the arrest to Daily Trust, said the prime suspect, Abubakar, Auwalu Umar and one Kaila Taura were arrested by the police in Gwaram Wednesday night.
The commissioner, who spoke through the command’s PRO ASP Abdul Jinjiri said the sponsor of the killing, who was the former chairman of the local government, Alhaji Auwalu Sale Kila, was said to be traveled to Abuja. Alhaji Fana explained that the suspects hinted police that they were hired to kill little Zainab by the former chairman at the cost of N3m, which would be paid after completing the assignment. They also told police that they were directed by the sponsor to take the deceased’s head to the residence of the present chairman, Alhaji Bala Sule Kila for reasons best known to the sponsor.
He further stated that the suspects also told police during interrogation that they already received N20, 000 out of the N3m pledged to them. Alhaji Fana added that the suspects who have been helping police in its investigation, also led a team of policemen to the place where they buried the Zainab after beheading her. It would be recalled that three-year-old Zainab Tanimu Ayuba was beheaded by the suspected killers and her head was taken to the chairman last Saturday. jiri said the sponsor of the killing, who was the former chairman of the local government, Alhaji Auwalu Sale Kila, was said to be traveled to Abuja. Alhaji Fana explained that the suspects hinted police that they were hired to kill little Zainab by the former chairman at the cost of N3m, which would be paid after completing the assignment. They also told police that they were directed by the sponsor to take the deceased’s head to the residence of the present chairman, Alhaji Bala Sule Kila for reasons best known to the sponsor.
It would be recalled that three-year-old Zainab Tanimu Ayuba was beheaded by the suspected killers and her head was taken to the chairman last Saturday.
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