It was gathered that his killers used machetes to hack him to death after they scaled the fence of his apartment and gained forceful entry into his compound.
Police sources said the victim gave one Sosu Samuel, a citizen of Niger, seven acres of his land at Badagry for farming, Unfortunately, Sosu would go on to mastermind the General's death.
Mrs. Unigbe who was also attacked is in critical condition at an undisclosed hospital.
The police source said that Sosu engaged the services of one Abiodun and two others who are now at large to kill General Unigbe, after the late army officer asked him to hand over the parcel of land by December.
One of the officers who requested anonymity narrated how the victim was hacked to death.
"Abiodun and the others now at large went to the victim's house to lay ambush in the evening. There was power blackout when the suspects got to the victim’s house and the man stepped out immediately to put on his generator. Then Abiodun and the assistants swooped on him and macheted him to death. His cries for help were not heard by anyone due to the noise of the generating set."
The officer added that Mrs. Unigbe was caught unaware by the killers who swooped on her when she came out to find out why her husband was staying outside for so long.
"The wife also stepped out to see what was taking her husband a long time to return to the house. Unfortunately, she met the men cutting her husband into pieces with machetes and she recognized them as her menial workers.
"The assailants noticed that they were in trouble and they decided to kill the woman and they cut of her ears, hands and other parts of her body; the woman collapsed and became unconscious and thinking that the woman had given up the ghost the assailants fled the scene. By divine intervention, the woman did not die and she was rushed to the hospital by neighours who came calling at their home; she is recuperating in an undisclosed hospital."
Investigations by the police following a statement given by the injured woman led officers to arrest Sosu. Abiodun was arrested in a hideout at Kojola village in Ogun State a month after committing the crime.
Brigadier General Umar Jabil Unigbe. Unigbe
In his statement to the police, Abiodun confessed that Sosu recruited him and two others to kill the victim.
"Sosu told me that there was millions of naira kept in the army officers’s room and if we could gain entry into his home we would see a lot of money to steal. So that was how we went there and killed the army officer, it was Sosu that gave us all the information on how to carry out the crime," Abiodun said.
Lagos State Police Spokesman Samuel Jinadu said the police is on the trail of the other suspects "we are investigating the case and as soon as we are through the suspects will be charged to court."
culled from dailytimes
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