Spiritualist Kills Student Over N7M Loan

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October 24, 2014 2:26 PM

The deceased who just got married, was lured by Bello to Kastina state where he was ambushed and killed by some hoodlums who hid in a bush to carry out the horrible act

A Spiritualist, Lawal Saleh and another man, Abdullahi Bello, have been accused of the murder of their friend, Awwal Umar over a N7 million debt.

Bello was reportedly lent the sum of N7million by his friend, 26-year-old Umar - a student union leader at Baze University, Abuja who was killed because Bello couldn't payback the money.

Punch reports that the deceased who just got married, was lured by Bello to Kastina state where he was ambushed and killed by some hoodlums who hid in a bush to carry out the horrible act.

While parading the suspects on Thurdsay in Abuja, the Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inalegwu, explained that Bello masterminded the murder after he could not pay back the N7m loan he got from Umar.

Inalegwu alleged that Bello had earlier asked the spiritualist to hypnotise Umar to forget the money, but the charm did not work, as the student kept pestering him for his money.

He therefore resorted to planning how to kill Umar to avoid paying up the debt.

The CP said, “On the October 2, when Awwal 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.

Inalegwu said that through diligent investigation, detectives got Umar’s phone log and made 12 arrests, adding that during interrogation, the spiritualist confessed that he and Abdullahi killed the student leader.

The CP said the Police had exhumed Umar’s corpse from the shallow grave where he was buried, noting that the body had over 36 lacerations.

He stated that Bello had repainted Umar’s car and converted it to his personal use, noting that he used the loan to build a house, which the police said they had also located.

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