Adamu Aliyu, Chairman of the Miyyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Gwagwalada Chapter, Abuja, has been killed by bandits who invaded the council.
According to Daily Trust, Adamu Aliyu was said to have been killed alongside four others near Daku village in Dobi ward of the council on Thursday.
Secretary of MACBAN, Mohammed Usman, who confirmed the incident said three persons were kidnapped, while three others who sustained gun shot wounds are receiving treatment at the University of Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada.
Usman 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, while the bandits suddenly emerged from the bush and opened fire on the truck.
He explained that the bandits shattered the windscreen of the truck, which was conveying the late MACBAN and some passengers.
“They were retuning from Izom market in Niger state where they went to sell cows, until just 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.
The chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Alhaji Adamu Mustapha, confirmed the incident but declined to speak further, saying he was in a meeting.
The FCT police spokesperson, DSP Adeh Josephine, could not be reached to comment on the incident as at the time of filling this report.
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