Gunmen have killed Yohanna Mbudai Bzegu, a lecturer Adamawa State Polytechnic in Yola, the state capital.
The deceased, a lecturer with the Department of Mechanical Engineering was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday at his Bajabure residence, behind Anglican Junior Seminary, a satellite town on the outskirt of Yola, the state capital.
The assailants reportedly broke into his house and fired multiple shots into his chest and watched him breathe his last, while his wife looked haplessly.
According to PUNCH, a source close to the family who pleaded anonymity said the attackers, gained entrance into their residence at about 3:00 am.
The source also disclosed it was the fifth attempt by the yet-to-be-identified assailants to attack the residence, adding only this time, they succeeded and murdered, their breadwinner in cold blood.
He said, “They first fire shots through the window; later they broke the door and shot him severally in the chest until they confirmed he was dead.”
The state police spokesperson, SP Suleiman Nguroje said, who confirmed the incident “The Commissioner of Police, Sikiru Akande, visited the crime scene earlier today and directed that immediate investigation, with a view to apprehending the culprit, be initiated to unearth the killers of the lecturer.”
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that gunmen attacked the residence of a pastor with Ekklesiyya Yan’uwa a Nigeria (Church of the Brethren), Daniel Umaru, in the Kwarhi area, a suburb at Mararaba Mubi.
The assailants shot the pastor and his two sons while his two teenage sons died instantly, the cleric did not.
The attackers abducted his 13-year-old daughter, who has since regained freedom after an undisclosed sum of money was paid to her abductors as ransom.
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