Almost 19 months
after, residents of the Mortgage Area of Gusau, capital of Zamfara
State, still shudder at the memory of the callousness of Kamalu, who
hired assassins to murder his mother, Hajia Aisha and his younger
sisters, aged nine and 11.
The bodies of
the victims were dumped in the Bager dam, located off the
Gusau-Dansadau Road in the state capital. Although Kamalu was eventually
tracked down by the police, arrested and is now standing trial, his
accomplices are still at large and fugitives from justice. That is why
the residents are grieved and baying for justice to be served Kamalu for
the heinous crime allegedly masterminded by him.
As Sunday Sun gathered,
the day infamy happened a day before May 29, 2013. While other
patriotic citizens were preparing to mark Democracy Day, generally
rejoicing and thanking God for the survival of the current dispensation of civil rule, Kamalu and his cohort were also perfecting plans on how to commit the triple murders.
It is still not
yet revealed the exact time of the day when the satanic team of
assassins struck and snuffed out life from the trio of mother and her
two daughters.
However, what is known is that a good citizen informed the police at
8.30 on May 29 that a dead body was seen floating on the water at Bager
dam, from which the State Water Board sources water treated and supplied
to the metropolis.
The police
quickly moved and recovered the corpse, which was taken to the Federal
Medical Centre Gusau for autopsy. The postmortem examination of the
corpse showed that there were deep cuts and injuries all over it. This
discovery led the police to suspect foul play, and listed it as a case
of SUD (sudden unnatural death).
Meanwhile,
relations of the late Hajia who were disturbed by her sudden
disappearance trooped to the police station on May 30, 2013 at midday, to file a report that she was missing, and had not been seen for 48 hours. They told the police that all efforts made to contact her on the phone were unsuccessful because her phone was not reachable.
After receiving
the report, the police took the relations to the FMC mortuary, where
they immediately identified the corpse shown to them as the late Hajia
Aisha, their missing sister.
Based on this
positive identification of the corpse, policemen led by the Divisional
Police Officer (DPO) drove to the home of the diceased and found the
place locked up.
They forced the door open and were confronted by the shocking sight of
blood stains all over the house. Meanwhile, the place had been ransacked
by the perpetrators of the crime, who probably removed money and other
valuable items.
The relations
informed the police that the personal car of the late Hajiya Aisha was
not in the compound, but curiously her son’s car was parked within the
premises. When the police searched the car, they found blood-stained
pillow cases and bed-sheets in the boot of the car. They took the items
away as exhibits. Attention then shifted to
what must have happened to the two youngdaughters, who were also living
with their mother. The police promptly suspected that the assailants
must have killed them too and probably dumped their bodies where the
body of their mother was discovered.
The police team
headed straight to the riverside to search for the corpses of the little
girls. Fortunately, the two corpses were recovered. One had cuts all
over the body, but the other one had its throat slashed through with a
knife.
Suspicion
immediately fell upon on Kamalu, a school dropout, who relations
recalled had consistently threatened to kill his mother if she failed to
give him money.
Through diligent
detective work, the police tracked him down in Kaduna town where he had
driven the mother’s car. Some valuable items and cash belonging to the
deceased were also recovered from him.
During
interrogation, Kamalu owned up to the crime, and said that he
masterminded the brutal and gruesome slaying of his biological mother
and two sisters. He also revealed the names of four of his accomplices.
Two of them were instantly arrested by the police, but two escaped and
have remained at large.
The Zamfara
State Police Command said through the public relations officer that it
would remain on the trail of the two fugitives, assuring that it would
not be long before they are arrested to face the full wrath of the law.
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