A disgruntled father-in-law who sent hired assassins after his daughter's husband is now in police cell.
A 62-year-old man from Tumbarja in Kubdia district of Gamawa local government area of Bauchi State, Dotti Jumba, is telling the police what he knows in the attempted murder of his son-in-law, Ahmadu Wakili Guji, who he placed death call on his head with a ransom of N40,000.
The
Bauchi State Police Command released a statement to the effect that it
had apprehended Jumba after he paid some men the said sum to murder his
daughter's daughter.
The police spokesman in
state police command, Haruna Muhammed, confirmed the arrest, saying that
detectives attached to Gamawa Division following a tip off that he had
sent hired killers after his son-in-law who got the man's father
instead.
The Police Public Relations Officer, a
Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the man allegedly contracted four
people with N40,000 to kill his 28-year-old son-in-law, a resident of
Matamu in Gamawa Local Government Area.
he said the
killers missed their target, and killed his father. Apart from Dotti
Jumba, the police spokesman informed that two other suspects,
22-year-old Sani Jumba and Bura Manu, 20, both from Kubdia district, and
two others, including the intermediary who collected the money from
Jumba and paid the others, were now at large.
Residents
of Kubdia village say that Jumba had never been happy that his daughter
agreed to marry Ahmed whom he sees as a poor man as against the rich
man the father had arranged for her, and has always been at logger heads
with his son-in-law, as well as threatening to eliminate him in the
past.
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