It
was just like remembring a horror film as residents of the Mortgage Area of
Gusau, capital of Zamfara State, 19 months after, still shudder at the memory
of the callousness of Kamalu, who hired assassins to murder his own mother,
Hajia Aisha and his younger sisters, aged 9 and 11 respectively and dumped
their bodies in the Bager dam, located off the Gusau-Dansadau Road in the
state capital.
It is still not
yet revealed the exact time of the day when the satanic team of assassins
struck and snuffed out life from the trio of mother and her two daughters.
However, what is known is that a good citizen informed the police at 8.30 on
May 29 that a dead body was seen floating on the water at Bager dam, from which
the State Water Board sources water treated and supplied to the metropolis.
The police
quickly moved and recovered the corpse, which was taken to the Federal Medical
Centre Gusau for autopsy. The post mortem examination of the corpse showed that
there were deep cuts and injuries all over it. This discovery led the police to
suspect foul play, and listed it as a case of SUD (sudden unnatural death).
Meanwhile,
relations of the late Hajia who were disturbed by her sudden disappearance
trooped to the police station on May 30, 2013 at midday, to file a report that
she was missing, and had not been seen for 48 hours. They told the police that all
efforts made to contact her on the phone were unsuccessful because her phone
was not reachable.
However, the
police then took the relations to the FMC mortuary, where they immediately
identified the corpse shown to them as the late Hajia Aisha, their missing
sister. Based on this positive identification of the corpse, policemen drove
to the home of the deceased and found the place locked up. They forced the door
open and were confronted by the shocking sight of blood stains all over the
house. Meanwhile, the place had been ransacked by the perpetrators of the
crime, who probably removed money and other valuable items.
Meanwhile, the
relations informed the police that the personal car of the late Hajiya Aisha
was not in the compound, but curiously her son’s car was parked within the
premises. When the police searched the car, they found blood-stained pillow
cases and bed-sheets in the boot of the car. They took the items away as exhibits.
Attention then shifted to what must have happened to the two young daughters,
who were also living with their mother. The police promptly suspected that the
assailants must have killed them too and probably dumped their bodies where the
body of their mother was discovered.
The police team
headed straight to the riverside to search for the corpses of the little girls.
Fortunately, the two corpses were recovered. One had cuts all over the body,
but the other one had its throat slashed through with a knife.
Suspicion
immediately fell upon on Kamalu, a school dropout, who relations recalled had
consistently threatened to kill his mother if she failed to give him money.
Through diligent detective work, the police tracked him down in Kaduna town
where he had driven the mother’s car. Some valuable items and cash belonging to
the deceased were also recovered from him.
During
interrogation, Kamalu owned up to the crime, and said that he masterminded the
brutal and gruesome slaying of his biological mother and two sisters. He also
revealed the names of four of his accomplices. Two of them were instantly
arrested by the police, but two escaped and have remained at large.
The Zamfara State
Police Command said through the public relations officer that it would remain
on the trail of the two fugitives, assuring that it would not be long before
they are arrested to face the full wrath of the law.
Source:
sunnewsonline
