Bandits Shot Dead Miyetti Allah Chairman In Abuja

Bandits Thursday invaded Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja and shot dead the chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) of the council, Adamu Aliyu.

Adamu Aliyu was said to have been killed alongside four others near Daku Village in The obi Ward of the council on Thursday. Secretary of MACBAN, Mohammed Usman, who confirmed the incident on Sunday, said three persons were abducted, while three others who sustained gunshot wounds are receiving treatment at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada.

He said the incident happened around 5 pm on the said day when the late MACBAN chairman, alongside others, were returning from Izom Market in Niger AStatein Dyna truck, while the bandits suddenly emerged from the bush and opened fire on the truck.

According to him, the bandits shattered the windscreen of the truck, which was conveying the late MACBAN chairman and some passengers. “They were returning from Izom Market in Niger State where they went to sell cows, until just 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 further 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. The chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Alhaji Adamu Mustapha, confirmed the incident to reporters on the telephone, ut declined to speak further, saying he was in a meeting and that he would call back later.