Why & how I killed Commandant of Staff College, Jaji- Suspect

Yusuf Bello| The man suspected to have killed, Oluyemisi Ogundana, the commandant of Command Secondary School at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna, Bernard Simon, on Wednesday disclosed in detail how he killed the Naval officer.

While parading the suspect alongside 44 other suspects, Kaduna state police commissioner, Ali Janga said Simon raped the naval officer to death.

But Simon who confessed that he acted alone, however, denied raping the deceased before killing her.

He confessed to sneaking into the house of the late officer at the Jaji military cantonment and hit her on the head with an iron rod.

.Late Ogundana

On why he killed her, Simon, 36, said, “I killed her because she was cheating us in the school. I am a teacher in the school and she was cheating us as staff under her. I killed her to set the whole staff of the school free from her cheats.

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“There are some financial benefit she deprived us of. She denied me in particular of over N100,000. That is why I killed her to set myself and other staff free from her.”

The culprit also went further to explain how he dismembered her body and later packed it into two bags, dropped them in the officer’s SUV jeep and drove off to where he dumped the two bags into a shallow well.

Also paraded on Wednesday by the state police command, were suspected abductors of three students of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and a member of the state House of Assembly, Suleiman Dabo.

According to the police commissioner, the suspects were arrested at different locations during several operations carried out by men of the command and the IGP Rapid Response Team.

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Some of the suspects, he said, confessed to being responsible for the killing of three Operatives of the IGP Intelligent Response Team (IRT) in 2018 and recent Kidnapping of an Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Algarkawi among other crimes.

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