Family of late former chief of defence staff Alex Badeh have according to reports refuted claims by the suspects linked to his death that they killed him to seize alleged huge sums of money he had on him to buy farmland.
Vanguard reported that the family on Thursday insisted that contrary to the claim, Mr Badeh did not discuss any issue about the acquisition of land neither did he have ‘N500’ on him on the day he was killed.
The family’s response came as police authorities turned back on their plan on Thursday to parade five suspects, including two masterminds of the December 18 killing of Badeh.
The police decided against parading all five suspects in order not to jeopardise ongoing investigation and efforts to arrest other members of the gang still at large.
However, a video of a suspect who was being interrogated leaked on Thursday where the suspect claimed they attacked Badeh to get hold of the huge sums of money he had on him.
The family reportedly said the claim was a “cook-up story to deceive the public and hide the killers and their intentions.”
While delegating only one member to speak, the family was reported to have insisted that the name of the representative be kept in secrecy.
“I want to emphatically tell you here that contrary to the claim that he went to his farm on the fateful day with huge amount of money to buy additional farmland, there was nothing like that. 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,” the representative was quoted to have said.
