Taraba killing: Soldiers allegedly received orders from army captain to kill policemen

An Army Captain alongside five other Army personnel are being interrogated at the Defence Headquarters Abuja, over their alleged involvement in the horrific killing of the three policemen and their two civilian agents. The horrific incidence occurred in an operation to arrest a notorious kidnapper, Alhaji Hamisu Balla, alias Wudume, in Ibi area of Taraba State.

The arrested soldiers confessed that they received orders to attack the policemen from the captain, whom they said informed them that Wadume had been kidnapped and was being transported in a silver-colored Toyota Hiace Bus in Taraba.

A source at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, said the soldiers claimed that they acted squarely on the orders of the captain, being their superior officer, but Police sources at Force Headquarters Abuja, disclosed that the police authorities have established strong links between the army captain and the notorious kidnapper, alleging that the army captain was on the kidnapper’s payroll. The source added further that its investigations have also revealed that the army captain, who was not present in Ibi Town at the time the IRT operatives arrested Wadume, might have ordered his men to attack and kill the IRT operatives as well as rescue his friend, the kidnapper.