Baze University Student Union Leader Murdered By Friend Over N7m Loan

A student union leader at Baze University, Abuja, Awwal Umar, has been
murdered by his friend, Abdullahi Bello, and a spiritualist, Lawal
Saleh, over N7m the deceased lent to Bello.

Bello was said to have lured Umar, 26, who just got married, to
Katsina State, where he was attacked and killed by some hoodlums who
hid in a bush to carry out the dastardly act.

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

According to him, 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 theybhad 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.
--Gistreel