Victory at last : suspected killers of missing retired General Alkali arrested

It’s been exactly a month now since Major General Alkali went missing and before now, there were bits and pieces of evidences popping up during the investigation into his whereabouts but it looks like the case would soon be fully solved now. This new development happened earlier today when the special task force Army has put together to carry out sting operations aimed at finally locating the whereabouts of the missing retired general who went missing on Monday, September 3, made a raid.

30 suspects were captured amid the primary period of the task, and different weapons were recovered. The head of Army staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, in a report on the issue on Wednesday, October 3, said the main period of the task included brushing the whole Doi Du Community in Du District of Jos South LGA of Plateau state. It was accumulated that 30 suspects were captured amid the activity.
The Army further revealed that various weapons were reclaimed from some of the suspects, including: three locally made single barrel guns, three locally made pistols, five 7.62 MM(SP) RDS, 30 9MM RDS, one pistol magazine and an empty case.

Likewise reclaimed were four knives, one locally made sword, three cutlasses, one iron bar, two sets of boots, vigilante ID cards, five motorcycles, one tricycle, one thousand Korean currency note, a wrist watch, one power bank, 25 different phones, two car keys, 2 house keys and a hoe.  According to the Army, the task would proceed until the point that Alkali is found.

It was already announced that the Nigerian Army pledged to totally evacuate a particular mining lake in Du District of Jos nearby government territory of Plateau, where it said it thought missing resigned Major General Idris Alkali was pushed into. Major General Augustine Agundu, the administrator of Operation Safe Haven, expressed this on Wednesday, September 26, while giving a report on the whereabouts of Alkali. a previous head of organization of the Army, announced missing since September 3. The senior officer resigned from administration on June 7 after 35 years.

Agundu, who talked at the finish of the second and third consolidated Chief of Army Staff Conference in Abuja, explained that insight and examination by the Army demonstrated that the missing general was pushed into the lake. He further explained that on September 2, shooters raged a town in the region and executed 11 innocent individuals and injured a few others. Agundu said the young of the region responded to the killing the next day – September 3 with force by blocking the street and assaulting drivers and other innocent people.

He said it was believed Alkali was a victim of the protest. He said, “Our deduction, therefore, is that Maj.-Gen. I. M. Alkali could have run into the protesting youth on September 3 in Du District as recorded by his cell phone. Various eyewitnesses have attested to the fact that they saw a black car that was pushed into a mining pond.” The operation safe Haven commander said there were in regards to twenty lakes in the area, yet that the armed force focused in on the specific one, where the missing senior officer was believed to have been pushed into.

Agundu said that the wife of the officer, Salamatu Alkali, drew the attention of the Army officials to a suspected case of the missing senior officer on September 5. He said the wife explained that the resigned officer left his home in Abuja for Bauchi on September 3 and he went without his driver and orderly and drove himself in a dark Toyota Corolla. He said since the Army authorities was drawn to the incident, it had been attempting efforts to find Alkali.