The remains of abducted Col. Samaila Inusa were on Wednesday buried at the old Nigerian Defence Academy burial ground in Kaduna State. Inusa, who was a Chief Instructor at the Nigerian Army School of Infantry, Jaji, near Kaduna State, was kidnapped at gunpoint along Refinery Junction in Chikun Local Government of Kaduna State on Saturday.
His decomposing body was found along the Kaduna Eastern Bypass, a few kilometres away from where he was abducted on Tuesday.
Drabbed in the national colour of the green-white- green, the body of Inusa arrived the old NDA Cemetery around 11.45am from the Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna, and was committed to the mother earth at noon.
Meanwhile, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has vowed to fish out the perpetrators of the act. Buratai said he would make them to face the full weight of the law.
Represented by the Chief of Administration, Army Headquarters, Maj-Gen. Ado Abubakar, the COAS said the Army was mourning the slain senior officer who had served the country meritoriously.
He described the late officer as a gallant and professional soldier, noting that the Army was not happy about the way he was killed.
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