The Nigeria Police Force on Monday, July 22, 2024, said it had arrested one Hashiru Baku – the mastermind behind the murder of late Brigadier General Harold Udokwere.
Baku, an escapee from the Kuje Correctional Centre was paraded in Abuja by the Federal Capital Territory Command of the Police Ibrahim Rabiu, Nafiu Jamil, Aliyu Abdullahi and Mohammed Nuhu.
Udokwere, who was the National Chairman of the Retired Members of the Nigerian Armed Forces, was murdered by armed robbers who invaded his residence on June 22, 2024, and took away his gun.
Addressing journalists while parading the suspects, the FCT Command’s Commissioner of Police, Bennett Igweh, said Baku was arrested in Kano State while trying to run away from the countryon June 24, 2024.
Igweh said, “I did show you the four killers, kidnappers, and robbers that went and killed Brigadier-General Uwe Harrod, retired. Today, I will show you the organiser of the killing and the robbery.
“As well as we have recovered the general’s gun that was with him. We have recovered the wristwatch of the general and the wife’s jewellery which they stole from the general’s house.
“The organiser is here and we have arrested him. He is the organiser. He was in prison and during the Kuje Correctional Centre attack, he escaped,” he said.
He added that rather than repent after his escape, Baku continued with more audacity to the extent of committing murder.
Igweh said, “We recovered these drugs in his residence. So, that’s what they take and they will continue to be high.”
