Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase
The police have started investigations into the
sudden death of the Deputy Governor of Borno
State, Mr. Zannah Umar Mustapha, at a Yola
hotel in the early hours of Saturday.
Though no arrest had been made as of the time
of filing this report on Saturday evening, the
Public Relations Officer of the Adamawa State
Police Command, DSP Abubakar Othman, told
our correspondent on phone that the Police has
not ruled out anything yet.
He said it was still early to close the case,
saying, “We have started investigations of what
might be responsible for the sudden death of the
late deputy governor.”
The deputy governor was found dead by his
aides on Saturday morning after they forced the
door to his room open as he was late to come
out to begin the day’s work.
Mustapha, according to some of his aides who
spoke on condition of anonymity, said the deputy
governor retired to bed at about 11pm on Friday
and had told his aides to come for Saturday’s
activities at 7:30am.
One of the aides said, “We became suspicious
and worried when the deputy governor did not
come out of the hotel room by 8:30am and we
decided to knock on his door, when he was not
answering, some of us went to peep through the
window forcing it open.
“We saw that he was lying on the bed clutching
the pillow closely, we shouted his name but he
did not answer. It was at this stage that we
decided to call the hotel staff to open the door.
“When we got inside, we saw him lying face
down, and on close examination, we saw some
saliva and blood being discharged from his
mouth and we rushed him to the hospital where
he was confirmed dead.”
It was gathered that the deputy governor was
taken to the Federal Medical Centre in Yola.
He was later taken to the Yola airport where he
was transported to the Borno state capital to be
buried.
The aircraft that brought his corpse touched
down at the Maiduguri International Airport at
4:10pm and he was immediately taken to his
official lodge to be prepared for funeral.
The final prayer for the repose of his body was
conducted by the Imam Idaini of Borno, Imam
Adam Ibn Elsunusiya who led other prominent
individuals, including the Borno state governor,
Mr. Kashim Shettima, the Yobe deputy governor,
Mr. Abubakar Aliyu, Adamawa deputy governor, ,
the National Security Adviser, Maj, General
Babagana Monguno and other service chiefs who
were in Borno and Yobe state to assess the
security situation.
Mustapha was later taken to his final resting
place, the Maiduguri cemetery, Gwange where
we was interred on Saturday evening.

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I love Muslim way of burial but it has its short comings now to perform autopsy on the decease is now an issue because the way his aides described him it looks like he was strangled hmmm let me not go further.

To get to the truth he needs to be exhumed and autopsy conducted on him to really find out what killed the man because the answer to the mystery still lies in the body of deceased and I don't know if Muslims accept exhuming of bodies for medical reasons.

Whats there to probe here?