Military arrests 14 suspected killers of Ex-CDS, Alex Badeh – TheNigerialawyer

Detectives from the Defence Headquarters, (DHQ ) Abuja, and the
Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested 14 suspects in
connection with the murder of the former Chief of Defence Staff,
Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh.

Findings showed that the suspects were arrested by a Joint
Investigative Panel which was inaugurated by the Chief of the
Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin following the incident on
December 18 last year.

The suspects were scheduled to be paraded before newsmen at the
DHQ Garrison in Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja on Tuesday. The parade
was later postponed due to what officials of the DHQ described as “
some unforeseen hitches.”

Before the postponement, five of the suspects were brought to
the venue of the briefings at about 1.42pm and were later ushered
into a separate room as military officers made frantic efforts with
others for the remaining suspects.

It would be recalled that the Nigerian Police Force had in
December 2018 paraded five suspects linked to the murder. One of
them was a 25-year-old Shuaibu Rabo, who said the former CDS was
killed while they were trying to rob him of money meant for the
purchase of a new farmland.

A member of the ex-CDS family, however, debunked the claim
saying there was no money with Badeh at the time he killed by the
gunmen.

The initial parade of the five suspects did not, however, stop
military and DSS to follow up the matter as the CDS Gen. Olonisakin
order an investigative panel to dig deep into the murder.

Badeh was the Chief of the Defence Staff between January 2014
and July 2015, after he earlier served as the Chief of the Air
Staff between October 2012 and January 2014.

The Nigerian Air Force Director of Public Relations and
Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, who first broke the
news on Twitter, said Badeh died from “gunshot wounds sustained
when his vehicle was attacked.”

The invitation on the parade of the suspects, signed by
Lieutenant I.O Audu, partly reads, “I am directed to cordially
invite you to cover the presentation of findings and parading of
some arrested suspects by the Joint Investigative Panel set up by
the DHQ on Tuesday. Members of the press are requested to be seated
promptly as nobody will be allowed to enter the venue as soon as
the event commences.”

The parade has, however, been postponed as the Acting Director
of Defence Information Col. Onyema Nwachukwu pleaded with newsmen
that a new date would be communicated as soon as possible.

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