VANGUARD
5th columnist, terror financiers deep in it
•How top Military men who tried to expose financiers of terrorists were eliminated
•Boko Haram financiers known by FG – Retired Military personnel
Insecurity in Nigeria has become an issue of grave concern to every Nigerian, with each passing day introducing new methods, more daring approaches and brazen displays of flagrant disregard for constituted authority, by violent non-state actors.
More worrisome is the continued spread of terrorism accentuated by the role of terror financiers.
Findings by Saturday Vanguard have revealed how some top Military officers who attempted to fight terrorists holistically were allegedly killed under questionable circumstances or had their plans botched.
Former CDS Badeh
One of them was the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, who served under former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, between 2014 and 2015 .
His vehicle was attacked on the evening of Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by gunmen on the Keffi- Abuja expressway, while returning from his farm.
Though two principal suspects who were linked to his murder, said he was killed during a robbery operation, revelations by his close lieutenants revealed that he was killed because he threatened to open a can of worms on activities of some government officials sponsoring terrorists in Nigeria.
Why he was killed
It would be recalled that while in office as CDS , in October 2014, terrorists briefly occupied his hometown in Vimtim, Adamawa State and killed one of his cousins who lived next door to his house. His house was burnt, including the hospital he built in memory of his late mother, for the community.
Irked by the terrorists’ effrontery, Saturday Vanguard was reliably informed that the General took some of his trusted lieutenants on a covert operation in Maiduguri.
Military sources said during the operation which lasted some days, he ran into some top government officials “as they were coming out of a meeting with Boko Haram Commanders, in the Nigerian Army underground Armory which was seized by Boko Haram.
“He exercised restraint and ordered us not to shoot. He took pictures of the scene which he never released to the government when he retired in July 2015, two months after Buhari assumed office as President..
Threat to expose sponsors
He was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on the directive of Buhari, over alleged misconduct established against some retired and serving officers in the Nigerian Air Force and Nigerian Army , of which late Badeh was included.
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