Kano DisCo official: How I killed my friend over N3m FIRS job deal

A staff of the Kano Electricity Distribution Company, Saadiq Zubaru, has disclosed how he killed his friend and colleague, Bello Adamu, after collecting N3 million to help him secure a job at the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

Adamu, a Kano resident, was earlier declared missing after he received an urgent call from Zubaru.

Two days later, his corpse was found at a backstreet location in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano.

Adamu’s younger brother, Abdullahi Abubakar, disclosed that his late brother was at home when he received a call from Zubaru at about 12 p.m. on Sunday, May 5, 2024.

He said the family was aware that Adamu had a job deal with some people and he was confident of securing the offer.

“Bello was desperately looking for a Federal Inland Revenue Service job offer. He was so hopeful. He was working with Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) and wanted to join FIRS and somebody was soliciting the offer for him.

“When he received a phone call in relation to the job offer, he asked his wife to bring his car key and went to the person waiting for him. Since then we never heard from him.

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“Since he did not return that Sunday, we decided to track his calls. The last word of his conversation with the person on the other end was Alhamdulillah. From this we understood that he was lured into believing that the offer was ready-made,” Abubakar told Daily Trust.

The incident was confirmed by the Kano State Police Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Kiyawa, on Thursday, May 9.

Kiyawa, in a statement, said: “During preliminary investigations, the suspect confessed that he conspired with two others, and jointly lured the victim to his house who until his death were intimate friends.

“He narrated that he tied him up, and hit him with sticks and sharp iron on his head and other parts of his body until he became motionless.

“Thereafter, he loaded the motionless body inside the boot of the deceased’s vehicle, threw him off by the roadside along Eastern Bypass, around Bichi village and left away with the motor vehicle, a Toyota Corolla, 2015 Model including his mobile phone.

“The suspect further confessed that what led to this regrettable incident was after he deceitfully collected the sum of three million naira from him on the pretext that he would secure a job offer for him.

“But having realised that he had no means of returning the money to him he hired two hefty guys, conspired with them killed him and hid the Motor Vehicle at a Garage in Hotoro Quarters, Kano. The vehicle has since been however recovered by the police.”

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