Man allegedly pays N40,000 for son-in-law to be killed

BAUCHI—THE police in Bauchi State have
arrested a 62-year-old man, Dotti Jumba, from
Tumbarja in Kubdia district of Gamawa Local
Government Area of the state for paying some
persons N40,000 to kill his son-in-law, Ahmadu
Wakili Guji.
Jumba, according to a statement made available
to journalists in Bauchi by the police spokesman
in Bauchi State Police Command, Haruna
Muhammed, was arrested by detectives
attached to Gamawa Division on Friday,
October 31, 2014, at about 1pm.
The Police Public Relations Officer, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police, said the man allegedly
contracted four people with N40,000 to kill his
28-year-old son-in-law, a resident of Matamu in
Gamawa Local Government Area.
He said the killers missed their target, and
killed his father.
Apart from Dotti Jumba, the police spokesman
informed that two other suspects, 22-year-old
Sani Jumba and Bura Manu, 20, both from
Kubdia district, and two others, including the
intermediary who collected the money from
Jumba and paid the others, were now at large.