Robbers kill bureau de change operator, steal N3m in Kaduna A 35 year old bureau de change operator in Kaduna, Abdullahi Ibrahim, was on Saturday evening stabbed to death by dare devil robbers at a hotel in the state capital. The robbers who claimed to be his customers, it was gathered, carted away with N3 million. A colleague of the deceased who did not want his name in print because he was not authorized to speak to journalists, said Ibrahim went to the hotel with N3m for the purpose of transacting business with the said robbers. It also was learnt that the deceased, a father of three was tricked by robbers into the hotel where he was stabbed to death. He had since been buried according to Islamic rites. Meanwhile, Kaduna State Police Command on Sunday while confirming the incident said it had commenced a manhunt for the killers of the bureau de change operator (forex trader). The police spokesman in the state, Superintendent of Police Aminu Lawan, said “information available to us was that a man lodged in the said hotel, and the deceased came with a big polythene bag and requested to see the guest and a call was pulled through to the guest intercom who asked that the deceased be allowed to see him. “The guest was later joined by another two persons but the three of them left one after the other leaving the deceased in the hotel room, but because it was not time to check out, the receptionist did not bother to question them, but out of curiosity, he had to check the room when the deceased did not come out even after the check out time had passed, only to discover that the room was locked up, it was then he forced open the door only to see the deceased lying lifeless in the pool of his blood before our attention was called upon.” According to Lawan, the deceased was taken to a hospital where he was medically confirmed death following several stabbing he received on his chest. He said, preliminary investigation into the matter has started and some people are already being interrogated, adding that manhunt for the killers has already begun. Also speaking, the Public Relations Officer of the Forex Traders Association, Kaduna, Abdul Jalal-Usman described the incident as most unfortunate. According to Usman, they received a call from the police on Saturday evening, that one of their members was killed by unknown persons in a hotel, and they went there and demanded his corpse for burial which the police obliged them. He lamented that they had always warned their members on the danger of following clients to their houses, hotels or an unknown destination, and wondered why late Ibrahim had to fall a victim.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:39:00 +0000
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