Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh was killed by expert marksmen, an associate of the deceased has alleged. The former Chief of Defence Staff was shot dead
Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh was killed by expert marksmen, an associate of the deceased has alleged. The former Chief of Defence Staff was shot dead by unknown gunmen along Abuja-Keffi Road on December 18. This allegation is coming after the Nasarawa State Police Command on Thursday confirmed the arrest of five suspects in connection with the killing of Badeh. One of the suspects, Shuaibu Rabo, in a confessional video claimed that they killed the ex-CDS because he resisted being robbed of a large sum of money in his possession meant for the purchase of a parcel of land.
However, his family denied the allegation, claiming that the police concocted the story to deceive the public. The deceased’s associate, a retired security officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that from the crime scene analysis, the bullet’s trajectory and pictures had indicated that Badeh’s killers were not hoodlums, adding that it was “a targeted attack”. He also dismissed the confessional video as a charade, stressing that the ex-CDS was broke.
He said, “As an intimate friend of the late CDS, I can tell you categorically that Alex Badeh had no such money. He was very broke and could not pay his domestic staff and power bills. At a time, I volunteered to raise N50,000 to enable him to settle part of the bills, but he declined, saying he would harvest some crops on his farm and sell them to raise money. That was why he went to the farm to harvest the crops but he was ambushed and killed. He was very broke because all his accounts had been frozen by the court and his pension stopped. So, how could a man who could not pay his bills pay N2m for a farmland as claimed by the police investigation? That is stretching the lies too far.”
Another friend of the late CDS claimed that Alex Badeh was planning to join the campaign team of the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, before he was killed. According to the source, Alex Badeh delayed the announcement because his lawyer asked him to suspend the move and prepare for the opening of the defence of his corruption case which was slated for January 16, 17 and 18, 2019. The associate alleged that Badeh might have been murdered to prevent him from revealing in court those who shared the money for arms for which he was being prosecuted.
