Breaking: Supposed killers of Assistant Director of Aso Villa arrested

The Nigerian police have arrested supposed killers of Assistant Director of Aso Villa, Laetitia Naankang Dagan, in Nigeria’s Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Onyxnewsng reported that Assistant Director of Administration in Aso Villa was assassinated by unknown gunmen on Tuesday, 18 February.

The online news media understands that this was made known on Tuesday, 18 February, by the Permanent Secretary, State House, Abuja, Jalal Arabi, that the 47-year-old Dagan who hailed from Plateau State, worked in her office on Monday, 17 February till 8 pm, but by 11 pm, she was gruesomely murdered in her apartment by unknown gunmen.

The Permanent Secretary had described the killing of Dagan, an Assistant Director of Administration in the State House, as “a painful loss, not only to her immediate family but also the entire State House.”

“She was a dedicated, hard-working officer, and we all feel pained by her dastardly and untimely death,” Arabi told her family members during a condolence visit.
On Wednesday, 19 February, the Nigerian police said their investigation was successful, as two arrests have been made.

Sources from Aso Rock said the police were able to make the arrests after the assassins forgot one of their phones in Dagan’s apartment, after killing her.

“They left with Laetitia’s phones and left one of their own”, said the source, in the know of the police investigation, adding that the Police had used the abandoned phone to trace the suspects.

According to sources, demised Laetitia who was living in an apartment in Lokogoma in Abuja had reported some bad guys dealing in drugs near her home to the police, leading to a police raid of the joint. It was believed that a betrayal from the police may have told the drug boys that Laetitia’s eyes were on them.