Top CAC officer shot, burnt – Daily Trust
November 13, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
An aide to the chief executive of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) was shot dead and set ablaze by unknown gunmen in Utako, Abuja, on Wednesday night.
Abubakar Umar, a lawyer and special assistant to CAC’s newly-appointed Registrar-General Bello Mahmud, appeared to have been trailed after he left work on Wednesday night, abducted and shot in the head along Dan Suleiman Street in Utako. His dead, burnt body was found inside his burnt car around the Utako Market area yesterday morning.
Residents said they saw smoke billowing sometime around 9pm on Wednesday, but did not hear any gunshot around that time. It was only this morning that Umar’s burnt car was seen with his charred corpse inside, they said.
Daily Trust’s reporters, who visited the scene of the incident at 9 am yesterday, saw Umar’s burnt corpse with an apparent bullet hole in the head.
The corpse which was burnt to the bones had been tied to the driver’s seat of the completely burnt Toyota Camry car, which was in a small bush off the road.
Police officers, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Utako, were seen moving around the car, while medical personnel from the National Hospital arrived at about 10.30 am to take the corpse.
The DPO declined to comment and referred journalists to the FCT Police Command’s spokesperson.
