An associate of the deceased former chief of defence staff Alex Badeh was killed by expert gunmen.
Mr Badeh was shot dead by unknown gunmen along Abuja-Keffi Road on December 18.
Nasarawa State Police on Thursday confirmed the arrest of five suspects in connection with Badeh’s killing.
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.
But the deceased’s associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Punch on Friday that a crime scene analysis, the bullet’s trajectory and pictures had indicated that Badeh’s killers were not hoodlums.
The retired security officer explained that the incident was “a targeted attack.”
He dismissed the confessional video as a charade, stressing that the ex-CDS was broke.
“As an intimate friend of the late CDS, I can tell you categorically that 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,” the associate said.
Another friend of the late CDS claimed that Badeh was planning to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign team before he was killed.
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.
