By Adesina Soyooye
A key suspect in the gruesome murder of Harold Udokwere, a retired Army Brigadier-General, has been arrested by the Police in Abuja.
Udokwere was brutally killed on June 24, 2024, in his Lokogoma Abuja residence by hoodlums who gained entry by scaling his wall. His assassination has remained unresolved but now, it has been cracked by the Police with the arrest of a key suspect, Alkasim Mohammed, 18, and his partner in crime, Suleiman Abdullahi, 22. Given their ages, it means that the retired senior Army Officer was assassinated by those young enough to be his children. At the time they murdered him in 2024, Mohammed and Abdullahi were 17 and 21 years olds respectively.
Revealing this breakthrough in a post on his X handle, Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert, said that both suspects were arrested during a coordinated operation conducted by the Scorpion Squad at the Durumi Phase 2, Abuja.
It turned out, during interrogation, that the two are a part of a heartless criminal gang which has wreaked havoc on Abuja residents. The gang is blood-thirsty.
Aside from Udokwere, the arrested had taken part in other high profile crimes in Abuja.
For example, on March 7, 2024, they went to Room 303 at the Rita Lori Hotel, Abuja, and murdered a Bureau de Change Operator, Auwal Abdullahi.
In another operation, they attacked a Point of Sale Operator, Mercy Alo, in Jabi, and dispossessed her of the sum of N700,000.00. In the process, they shot a customer, Daniel Inalegwu on the thigh. They have also been deeply and frequently involved in abductions, home-invasions and car jacking in Abuja and environs.
Recovered from them are a Beretta pistol with breach number 58866 and 11 rounds of 9mm live ammunition. Incidentally, it is the same pistol that was used to shoot the POS customer on the thigh.
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