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Bello Garba Bello,
the first son of the late senior official of the state security service
killed on Monday in Kano, has allegedly confessed that he was the one
who actually stabbed his father, Garba Bello, his mother, Habiba and
his three siblings to death in a murder case that has shocked residents
of the city.

Twenty-two-year-old
Mr Bello (Baba) made this confession yesterday at the headquarters of
the Kano State Police Command, Bompai Kano.

The state Police
Commissioner, Mohammed J. Gana, showed journalists a handwritten
confessional statement allegedly written by the suspect, in which he
confessed to killing his family and said that after he killed them, he
tried to commit suicide but couldn’t after realising the enormity of
what he did.

Mr Bello, who is a
200 level Physics student of the Kano State University of Technology,
Wudil (KSUT), had also all egedly confessed, in a hand written
statement submitted to the state command of the State Security Service
(SSS), that he single-handedly carried out the killings. He also
claimed that his anger was that his father was going to die because of
his terminal illness and that he could not bear the responsibilities of
catering for his mother and siblings that would follow subsequently.

He said in the
statement that he stabbed his parents and three of his siblings to
death at about 2am on Monday this week. “My father cannot provide for
my basic needs, so I killed them all with knives,” the statement to the
police reads. “It was painful to me and the entire family. It was an
unbearable, irreparable loss. My father has been bedridden and I know
he is not going to survive. I did the job alone.

“The intention was
to wipe out the entire family and after that, I called my neighbours,
Isiaku and Buhari immediately after the incident.”

Speculations not at rest

Security officials
say his confession puts to rest speculations about the motive behind
the killing of 54-year-old Bello and four members of his family.

The incident also
saw 40-year-old Habiba strangulated and three of their children,
16-year-old Hafsat; 14-year-old Khalifa and five-year-old Murjatu
murdered in cold blood.

One Umar Danjani,
who claimed to be a relation of the deceased SSS official, has,
however, disagreed with the police and the said confessional statement
of Mr Bello.

Mr Danjani said
that Farouk, the other surviving son of the late Bello, told the family
that he saw another man who was wearing a white singlet, called Aminu,
kill his family members. He also said some neighbours heard the sound
of a whistle and sound of many persons.

“This means that the younger Bello did not carry out the killings alone,” he said.