I killed my father, mother and siblings,’ says son of SSS chief

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.