Killer-In-Law: Man Pays N40K To Get His Daughter's Husband Murdered

A disgruntled father-in-law who sent hired assassins after his daughter's husband is now in police cell. A 62-year-old man from Tumbarja in Kubdia district of Gamawa local government area of Bauchi State » , Dotti Jumba, is telling the police what he knows in the attempted murder » of his son-in-law, Ahmadu Wakili Guji, who he placed death call on his head with a ransom of N40,000. The Bauchi State Police Command released a statement to the effect that it had apprehended Jumba after he paid some men the said sum to murder his daughter's daughter. The police spokesman in state police command, Haruna Muhammed, confirmed the arrest, saying that detectives attached to Gamawa Division following a tip off that he had sent hired killers after his son-in-law who got the man's father instead. The Police Public Relations Officer, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the man allegedly contracted four people with N40,000 to kill his 28- year-old son-in-law, a resident of Matamu in Gamawa Local Government Area. e said the killers missed their target, and killed his father. Apart from Dotti Jumba, the police spokesman informed that two other suspects, 22- year-old Sani Jumba and Bura Manu, 20, both from Kubdia district, and two others, including the intermediary who collected the money from Jumba and paid the others, were now at large. Residents of Kubdia village say that Jumba had never been happy that his daughter agreed to marry Ahmed whom he sees as a poor man as against the rich man the father had arranged for her, and has always been at logger heads with his son-in-law, as well as threatening to eliminate him in the past.