Family of late Chief of Defense staff rejects suspect confession, give reasons

The family of the late Chief of Air Staff, Alex Badeh has reacted to the confession by suspected killers of the deceased that they killed him to seize alleged huge sums of money he had on him to buy farmland.

It was reported that 25-year-old Shuaibu Rabo while being interrogated by Police, said Badeh was killed in an attack to rob him of money meant for the purchase of a new farmland.

Rabo, while explaining how the incident happened, said: “One day, Yaya went to Gitata market and met Ciroma who gave him a hint that the retired general (Badeh) had bought new farmland and he was bringing the money on a particular day.”

But reacting, the family described the confession as a lie, adding that Badeh did not discuss any issue about the acquisition of land neither was he with up to N500 on the day he was killed.

“In fact, he had no money on him that day, not even N500 in the vehicle. “As I told you, no money, I repeat, no money was in that vehicle. Not even N500 was in that vehicle on that day he was killed.

“I repeat that no N500 not even N1000 was in that motor he drove that he was killed that day.

“Before his death, a villager who knew he was on the farm that day went to meet him to get money to buy paracetamol tablet for his headache he could not afford the money for him. Instead, he asked the person if he could go to Panda Market.

“When the man said he could, our brother told him to pick 10 mudus (measured quantity) of maize to sell in the market and buy drug for himself, saying that was the only help he could render to him since he had no cash to give out.

“He took time to narrate to the person that as he was talking to him, there was a huge refuse dump at his house in Abuja and the people responsible for packing it, that is the Abuja Environmental Protection Board, had refused to do so because he had no money to pay for the packing.

He added that his cook and the cleaner in his house had not been paid, explaining further that those were the reasons he went to farm on that day to pick