Man Kills Baze University Student To Avoid Repaying N7m Loan

A 26-year-old student of Baze University, Abuja, Awwal Umar, has been murdered by a friend who owed him N7 million naira.

The FCT Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inalegwu, told newsmen that the chief suspect, Abdullahi Bello, connived with a spiritualist, Lawal Saleh and some hoodlums to kill late Umar to avoid repaying the loan, Nigerian Eye reports.

Inalegwu said Bello had initially asked Saleh to make Umar forget about the loan which he had spent on building a house.

When the charm failed to work, and Umar continued to ask for his money, Bello murdered him and converted his car to personal use after repainting it.

The CP said Umar was last seen by his people on the 2nd of October, 33 days after his wedding, when he said he was going to purchase a 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," Inalegwu said.

"That was the last contact they had with him."

Investigations following Umar's disappearance led detectives to Bello's call log after which 12 arrests were made.

The herbalist confessed that he and Bello killed the deceased.

The police discovered over 36 cuts on Umar's body after exhuming it from a shallow grave.