Police arrests four suspected killers of an Abuja-based retired Brigadier

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested four suspected killers of an Abuja-based retired Brigadier General Uwem Udukwere.

Udukwere was reportedly killed by armed robbers on Saturday, June 22, at his Sunshine Estate home in Abuja.

The 4 suspects have been identified as Ibrahim Rabiu, 33, Nafiu Jamil, 33, Aliyu Abdullahi, 47 & 28-year-old Mohammed Nuhu.

The suspects, who confessed to the crime, stabbed the General when he tried to resist them with his pistols. The knife used in committing the crime was recovered & the deceased stolen phone was equally recovered,” the commissioner said.

Rabiu Ibrahim on how the general was killed said: “We stabbed the general with a knife. We went to rob him & we collected laptops & phones from him.

I was the one that killed him with a knife. I had two knives. I stabbed him in the stomach while another of my friends stabbed him in his shoulder. The general was with his gun and he was struggling with us that was why we killed him.”