How we killed DIG Ningi – Suspect

Members of some religious bodies who spoke with Vanguard claimed that when they went to EBBC to book for airing of their programmes they were told that the state government was no longer interested in the broadcast of religious activities.
A pastor in one of the new generation churches in the state, who spoke on condition of anonymity said, “I went to book for our usual slot on EBBC and was told that the government was complaining about the rate at which religious programmes featured on television and radio stations.
I spoke with one of their heads in the station who pleaded anonymity to know why our programmes was no longer aired, I was told that the state government said the station was not built for religious programmes but for  broadcast of government activities which are intended to showcase the achievements of the present administration of Governor Martin Elechi.”
“What most churches have done is to run to Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, to book for slots. We want to appeal to Governor Elechi to rescind his decision. I want to say that the lives of most people in the state are being affected positively by these religious programmes. It has over the years led to reduction in crime, cultism and extra-judicial killing in the state”
But Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Chike Onwe, said the government did not ban religious programmes on EBBC, but only suspended them on both radio and television for a review and auditing of programmes carried out by the EBBC.

Salihu Goni, a family associate to assassinated Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Sale Abubakar Ningi, has owned up to masterminding the plot that led to Ningi’s murder in Kano three weeks ago.
Close relationship with late DIG
Goni, alias Kaka, told a team of crack detectives, during interrogation, that he shared close relationship with the late former police boss, stressing that the closeness put him at a vantage position to hatch and successfully execute the plot.
Goni, 34, who was picked up by the police at Hotoro Haye in Kano metropolis, also confessed that he monitored Ningi’s movement and alerted one Gana Bukar, also in police net, to lay ambush with one other person now at large.



He said: “The late DIG  had been my benefactor. He had helped me with money and food items during Salah celebrations and other festivities. I had been a constant visitor to his house and dined with the family several times.”
Ningi was assassinated along with a friend and his driver while returning from his factory at Dakata Sauna Kawaji Industrial layout, on the outskirts of the metropolis on June 5,  by unknown gunmen on motorcycle.


The Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Idris revealed that further investigations had led to the arrest of several other suspects in connection with the murder of the late senior police officer.
He  also said  that one Muhammed Tahir, 22, was arrested at Dandishe Kurna Asabe quarters, adding that three cans of Improvised Explosives Devices, IEDs, were recovered from his tailoring shop.

He noted that the suspect also confessed during interrogation to have conspired with several others to launch attack at the Bayero Univerity Kano, BUK, worship centre April 29, adding that the he also confessed killing a Chief Supreintendent of Customs and Staff of Department of State Security, DSS,  in Kano penultimate week.
The Police commissioner said, “we have widened our dragnet and robust investigation is ongoing and we will do our best to get to the root of the heinous crime in the state.’’

VANGUARD