Who really killed Alex Badeh amd why are his alleged killers not in court?’..A lot has become clearer

By, Umar Sa’ad Hassan

Barely 24 hours after my article titled Who Really Killed Alex Badeh And Why Are His Killers Not In Court? on the 25th of June,an announcement was made that a joint team of the DSS and military operatives had arrested another 14 suspects in relation to the murder.

The police had already arrested 5 persons in December 2018 with a video confession of one of the suspects going viral and adding another 14 persons from a different source at that point more or less appeared a confirmation of the worst; a cover-up was in play.

In addition to the lingering question of why the police would keep self-confessed murderers of the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff for 6 whole months without charging them to court,there was now a very glaring one on just how shabby and shameless the authorities were in what any right thinking person would deem a ploy to kill off the case.

Questions were now being asked and getting another fresh batch of suspects would suggest that investigations hadn’t been concluded.It didn’t matter that they were alluding to the lack of credibility of the process.

Not that it will suprise anyone but it has been 3 months since the latest arrests and 9 months since the ones before that.

Whoever isn’t coming out to publicly declare Buhari and his government the murderers of Alex Badeh is only holding back out of respect for the law.

Anyone would be excused for thinking back then that the Badeh family were overwhelmed by grief when they described the videoed confession of one of the suspects as a charade and adduced their reasons for doing so.

Not any more. Its obvious they knew what they were saying.Detained former AAC Presidential candidate and Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore has said how he was denied the use of a phone to call his family in DSS detention while boko haram commanders had access to not only that but also to televisions and cable in their cells.

There has been nothing to suggest Buhari is a member of boko haram other than claims years before he became President that he and a number of northern elites backed the sect to help entrench islamic rule early on but withdrew when their activities got out of hand.

Boko haram in an attempt to make public mockery of him,named him among its mediators to a dialogue with the Federal Government arranged by President Jonathan in 2012.

Buhari declined.The sect is known to slaughter members that renounce it as traitors and that that was the reason for the attack on his life in Kaduna.It has never really gone past that.

But if at all boko haram commanders are now accorded VIP treatment in detention then it suggests an appreciable level of expertise in handling ‘friendly scapegoat’ situations.

Rather than waiting to be ridiculed for not prosecuting people you have arrested for a murder,why not just extend the deal to include a cozy detention and a hasty and harmless trial?.

Well, a lot could go wrong,true.

A spokesperson of the Badeh family gave a heart-breaking account of the travails of the former CDS’ before his demise.

READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2019/10/26/who-really-killed-alex-badeh-amd-why-are-his-alleged-killers-not-in-court-a-lot-has-become-clearer/

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