The acting commander of the 82 Divisions Provost Group, Lt Colonel KA Adeta allegedly attempted to cover up the killing of a pregnant woman, Miss Hauwakulu Tabra by a soldier, Private Mohammed Adamu before SaharaReporters’ exposure of the matter, multiple sources on Tuesday confirmed.
SaharaReporters had on Saturday exclusively reported how Adamu with service number 21NA/80/0365 stabbed the late Tabra.
Multiple sources had narrated how the lifeless body of the five-month-old pregnant woman wearing a hijab was discovered on Friday by the daughter of an army lieutenant around the division’s officers’ quarters.
The suspect was said to be working with the division’s legal service.
According to two senior military officers who spoke to SaharaReporters, Adamu is a “repentant” Boko Haram member who after his repentance joined the Civilian Joint Task Force and later was enlisted into the Nigerian Army in the year 2021.
The Nigerian Army had between 2020 and 2021 absorbed 400 members of the civilian JTF into its fold to assist in prosecuting the war against Boko Haram terrorists.
“The suspect behind the murder of Miss Hauwa, the hijab woman is 21NA/80/0365 Pte Mohammed Adamu of 82Div legal services,” one of the sources had said.
“Unfortunately, Pte Mohammed Adamu is a repented Boko Haram member who after his repentance joined the civilian JTF. It was from being a CJTF that he was enlisted into the Army in the year 2021.
“Investigation revealed that Miss Hauwa and Pte Mohammed Adamu were both lovers and from the same town in Biu local government area of Borno state. He, Pte Mohammed Adamu paid her transport to come over to Enugu and killed her. He is currently in custody of the military police and his statement has been taken in which he confessed to the act.”
However, it was learnt that Lieutenant Colonel Adeta visited Adamu where he was detained by the military police before the story was published by SaharaReporters.
According to different sources, the army commander gave the killer soldier the sum of N8000 for his feeding in detention.
“Thanks for letting the whole world be aware of the truth. On the night of Saturday, the acting Commander 82Div Provost Group, Lieutenant Colonel KA Adeta visited and requested to see the suspect behind the murder of late Miss Hauwa,” one of the sources told SaharaReporters.
“During his visit, he told the killer to calm down that nothing would happen. Don’t forget that Adamu is the bathman to Major HY Shehu, the persecuting counsel and also DDLS of 82 Division. So he is like a boy to many of these top officers because he has access to many confidential documents and petitions written against them.
“So, after his assurance, he asked the Pte Mohammed Adamu if there is anything he would like him to do for him. After everything, he dropped off the sum of eight thousand naira for his feeding pending when his boss Major HY Shehu who travelled to Abuja comes back from his trip.
“Let me tell you something as well, same Lieutenant Colonel KA Adeta was once dismissed from service, though he was reinstated after a Court of Appeal judgement, the army intentionally refused to appeal at the Supreme Court. This was when Adeta was a Captain under 7 Division Provost Group sometimes in the year 2016 or thereabout in Maiduguri, Borno State.
“He was court-martialled in a murder related case where someone in his custody was killed on his instruction/under his watch. That was why the army authorities dismissed him. So he was dismissed and jailed and later brought back to service after an Appeal Court judgement. The case was actually struck out over technicalities, not on the real accusation. So he was posted to 81 Divisions Provost Group in Lagos State.
“He worked under the current Military Police Corp Commander/Provost Marshall, Major General Garba who was once as well dismissed after Jaji bomb blast few years ago. That is to tell you that none of them is clean.
“After Lieutenant Colonel Adeta left Adamu in detention, he got a call that this same incident he was trying to cover had been exposed by SaharaReporters, he was in disarray and confused. He immediately went back to the guard room where Adamu was kept.
“He confiscated all the phones belonging to the soldiers and officer working under him, especially those who visited the crime scene and took pictures of the lifeless body. He didn’t stop at that, he ordered that all the soldiers whom he suspected to have exposed the whole incident to SaharaReporters should be detained and their phones properly investigated. He was curious to know how SaharaReporters got the confession of Adamu where he admitted killing his lover.
“Not satisfied, he called upon the top Military Police investigators like Lieutenant Edet, Warrant Officer Yusuf, Corporal Agummadu, Corporal Dorathy, Lance Corporal Adam etc and ordered that a well detailed investigation should be carried out on the phones belonging to soldiers at the duty room.
“He further gave instructions that nobody should visit anyone in detention or bring food for them so as to avoid anyone knowing how the case is going or the whereabout of the suspect, Adamu. All these were efforts to keep the whole world in pure darkness about the incident if not for SaharaReporters.
“Meanwhile, all these plans may not work again as delegates from the Army Headquarters which were sent by the COAS in regard to the investigation on the murder mystery are around.”
Another source added, “Thanks to you guys, the plan was to forge a fake psycho result for the killer, so that they can say he was not mentally balanced. But the world is already aware of the case, it may interest you to know that the family of the deceased got to know about the incident through SaharaReporters.
“Major Adeboye of 82Div medical hospital was at the guardroom where he took his urine and blood samples. We await the result.”
SaharaReporters’ efforts to get Lieutenant Colonel Adeta’s reaction were unsuccessful as calls to his phone number did not connect.
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