The police have made some shocking arrest in the investigation of the murder of Katsina state’s commissioner for science, technology and innovation, Alhaji Rabe Nasir 19 Months after.
The deceased’s wife, Binta Rabe Nasir and his childhood friend, Yushau Abubakar Mani were arrested, arraigned before a Magistrate Court and remanded in custody as prime suspects in the murder of the former commissioner, News Point Nigeria gathered.
Recall that on the 9th of December, 2021, Katsina went into a shocking mourning state after the reported assassination of the state’s commissioner for science, Rabe Nasir.
Rabe was reported murdered in his private residence at Fatima Shema Housing Estate in Katsina on a cold Thursday evening.
A former State Security Service officer, Rabe also worked with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja.
He also represented Mani/Bindawa Federal Constituency at the National Assembly from 2007 to 2011.
Rabe was Governor Aminu Masari’s special adviser on science and technology from 2015 to 2019 from where he was elevated to the position of a commissioner.
This newspaper further gathered that, the deceased, Rabe Nasir and his first wife, Binta Rabe have been married for 38 years and they have children and grandchildren together and the deceased and Yusha’u Abubakar Mani were friends since early adolescence, they attended the same secondary school and proceeded to the university together.