A group of suspected bandits has invaded Daku village in Dobi ward, Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and shot dead the chairman of the Miyyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) of the council, Adamu Aliyu.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathers that the suspected bandits also shot dead four other persons and left three others with gunshot wounds, taking three other people hostage.
Secretary of MACBAN, Mohammed Usman confirmed the incident to Daily Trust respondent on Sunday, April 10, revealing that the wounded are already receiving treatment at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada.
Usman said the incident happened last Thursday, around 5 pm, when the late MACBAN chairman alongside others was returning 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 travelling back from Izom market in Niger state where they went to sell their cows as usual, nearly one kilometre 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.
It was gathered that combined security agents 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.
