BREAKING:- Bandit Shot Miyyetti Allah Chairman
A gang of suspected bandits stormed the Gwagwalada Area Council in Abuja, killing Adamu Aliyu, the leader of the Miyyetti Allah Cattle Breeders' Association of Nigeria (MACBAN). Late Aliyu was shot dead alongside four others near Daku village in the council's Dobi district, according to Froshblog.
On Sunday, April 10, MACBAN Secretary Mohammed Usman confirmed the event to a Daily Trust respondent, saying three people were abducted and three others got gunshot wounds and are being treated at the University of Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada.
He also said the incident happened last Thursday, around 5 pm, when the late MACBAN chairman alongside others were retuning from Izom market in Niger state in Dyna truck, as the bandits emerged suddenly from the bush and opened fire on the truck. While filing the reports, he revealed that the bandits shattered the windscreen of the truck, which was conveying the late MACBAN and some passengers.
“They were traveling back from Izom market in Niger state where they went to sell their cows as usual, nearly one kilometer to Daku village when the bandits suddenly emerged from the bush and opened fire on the truck, killing the MACBAN chairman and four others,” he said.
He gave the names of those killed as Saleh, Aliyu, Muhammadu and Saidu, saying the deceased’s corpses had been buried according to Islamic rites.
According to Daily Trust security agents, gathered comprising of soldiers, civil defence corps, mobile police and vigilante led by the Gwagwalada police area commander were at Daku village, before the remains of the deceased were buried.
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