Gunmen Assassinate Kogi Chairman Of Miyetti Allah

Unknown gunmen have assassinated the
chairman of the
Kogi state chapter of Wuro Miyetti-Allah
Association,
Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar.
The NAN reports that Abubakar was murdered
on Saturday,
October 29, by the gunmen numbering about
eight, who invaded
the Peace Community, Road 3, Ganaja road,
Lokoja residence of
the chairman at about 2.05am in the morning
to carry out the
killing.
Residents of the area, who spoke with
newsmen, said the
attackers passed through “unfamiliar routes”
to gain access to the
deceased’s residence beating the ‘C’ Division
Police Station route
where they could have been spotted and
questioned.
They explained that the operation lasted that
lasted over an hour
by the gunmen who fired gunshots in the
residence of the
chairman of Fulani socio-cultural group.
A neighbour who identified himself simply as
Musa, said before
the incident, some strange faces came into the
vicinity much
earlier but residents did not knowing they had
a sinister motive.
Musa said the gunmen shot at the door to the
room of one of the
deceased’s two wives and gained access into
the house, machete
the deceased on the neck and other parts of
the body and later
shot him severally.
Another resident, Dr Sam Alhassan, who is
medical practitioner
with the Federal Medical Centre said he was
awoked by gunshots
from his home which is a stone throw from
the victim’s
residence.
He said: “Then I rose up from my bed and
looked through the
window. I saw a group of bandits in two lines.
At least I saw eight
people, and they started shooting, shooting
and shooting.
“The next thing that I saw was that a bullet hit
the overhead tank
and water started running down.
Later I and my family went quiet
for a while; then the wife of the deceased
came out shouting, ‘they
have killed my husband.”
The medical practitioner said he later came
out with his landlord
and went into the deceased’s house to
ascertain the truth; only to
find him lying in the pool of his blood with
machete cuts and
bullet holes in his lifeless body.
Alhassan said it was unclear if the gunmen
took cash or property
from the house.
Confirming the murder of Abubakar, the police
public relations
officer, ASP Williams Aya told NAN that the
command had got the
report.
he added that the incident was a clear case of
assassination.
In another development, suspected Fulani
herdsmen who were
disguised as Army officers late on Thursday,
October 28, have
killed about 7 people in different communities
in Kaduna state.
Leadership reports that the herdsmen, wearing
military fatigues,
carried out the attacks in Passakori, Mile One,
Ungwan Misisi and
Tudun Wada of Kaninkon chiefdom in Jema’a
local government,
killing an 85-year-old traditional ruler and six
others.

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