Photos: Boy hires assassins to murder his mother, two sisters in Zamfara

Almost 19 months after, Kamalu, a school dropout,  hired assassins to murder his biological mother, Hajia Aisha, and two sisters, aged nine and eleven at the Mortgage Area of Gusau, capi­tal of Zamfara State.

The bodies of the victims were then dumped in the Bager dam, at Gusau-Dansadau Road in the state capital. After the heinous crime was committed, Kamalu fled with his mother's car, some valuables and cash to Kaduna. Relatives of Hajia Aisha told the police that her son, Kamalu had threatened to his mother if she failed to give him money, hence, the police swung into action and eventually tracked him down in Kaduna and recovered the items, Sunday Sun reports.

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. He is now standing trial for his crime.

He and his accomplices who are still at large carried the murders a day before May 29, 2013. Someone who saw a dead body floating on the water at Bager dam, from which the State Water Board sources water treated and supplied to the metropolis, informed the police at 8.30 on May 29.

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. The police then suspected 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.

Policemen led by the Divisional Police Of­ficer (DPO) drove to the home of the deceased 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 young daughters, 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.

***This is the height of insanity mixed with wickedness, he obviously wasn't deprived of anything if a car was bought for him, yet he killed his very own family. I hope the police find his accomplices so they can all face the music. Smh.

Culled from: Sunday Sun