By Taye Obateru & Samuel Olaniran
Wife of the Commander of the Special Task Force maintaining peace in Plateau State, Brigadier-General Hassan Umoru, died last Saturday after falling into a well in what was described as an accident.

Although initial speculations were that she was murdered, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Abdulrahman Akano, told journalists yesterday that the briefing he got indicated that it was an accident.

He dismissed insinuations that Mrs. Rifkatu Umoru was killed, saying there was no reason for anyone to want to murder the wife of the commander because he is doing a good job.

“The man is doing a good job and he is a God-fearing man who is putting in his best in his assignment, so there is no reason for anyone to attack his wife.  She fell into a well and it was purely an accident which unfortunate,” the commissioner said.

While one account said she fell into an uncovered well which she did not know about, another account said she went to the well to fetch water and fell into it.

Her corpse was said to have been discovered on Sunday by those who wanted to fetch water from the well following which they raised and alarm.

Men of the special task force were later called in to remove the corpse which was deposited at the mortuary of the Air Force Military Hospital in Jos.