An associate of the late Air Chief Marshal, Alex Badeh, has alleged that Badeh was killed by expert marksmen.
The associate alleged that Badeh might have been murdered to thwart him from revealing in court those who shared the money for arms for which he was being prosecuted.
However, the Nasarawa State Police Command had earlier confirmed the arrest of five suspects in connection with the killing of Badeh.
One of the suspects, Shuaibu Rabo, in a confessional video claimed that they killed the ex-CDS because he resisted being robbed of a large sum of money in his possession meant for the purchase of a parcel of land.
Meanwhile, Badeh’s family denied the allegation with the claim that the story was cooked up by the police in order to deceive the public.
However, the deceased’s associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told journalists that a crime scene analysis, the bullet’s trajectory and pictures had indicated that Badeh’s killers were not hoodlums.
Speaking to news men on Friday, the retired security officer explained that the incident was “a targeted attack.”
He dismissed the confessional video as a charade, stressing that the ex-CDS was broke.
According to him, “As an intimate friend of the late CDS I can tell you categorically that Badeh had no such money. He was very broke and could not pay his domestic staff and power bills. At a time, I volunteered to raise N50, 000 to enable him to settle part of the bills, but he declined, saying he would harvest some crops on his farm and sell them to raise money.
“That was why he went to the farm to harvest the crops but he was ambushed and killed.
