Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram
yesterday in Kano, wiped out the
entire family of an officer of the
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence
Corps (NSCDC), sending panic across
the metropolis. Eyewitness said that the surgents killed the man whose
name was not known at Press time, his
wife, four years old child as well as
his physically-challenged younger
brother. The tragedy occurred at about 12: 40
pm at Hotoro Quarters in the state
capital. It was the exact place where
an applicant was killed in his father’s
car in front of the residence of a
member of the House of Representatives, some days ago. The
four gunmen came on two
motorcycles to the home of their
victims and went straight to their
targets, who were all at home, given
that it was a weekend. The gunmen killed the entire family
and escaped ahead of the arrival of
the Joint Task Force (JTF) whose
soldiers arrived at the scene a few
minutes after the victims had been
killed. Spokesman of the state police command, Mr. Magaji Majiya, an
Assistant Supreintendent, confirmed
the attack on the family but declined
further details. The residents said
that the police and the soldiers
cordoned off the whole area in search of the suspects. A police
source, however, said that as at Press
time, no arrest was made while
adding that investigation had
started. Meanwhile, a similar tragedy befell a
young man from Benue State, who was
killed at Dakata Quarters in the state
capital, some three days ago. He was
shot and killed inside his business
centre by gunmen suspected to be Boko haram. The deceased, whose
name was given as Mr. Matthew
Akume, was shot at close range while
some of his valuables, especially his
laptop, were taken away by the
suspects. “Four other persons were in the shop with him when they came. They asked two of them to lie down
and the remaining two to go out of
the shop, before they killed him”, said
a witness. He recalled that the
suspect that pulled the trigger had a
‘small gun’, while the his colleagues, who were shooting outside, had a”
big gun” The late Akume was a
renowned member of St Louis
Catholic Church , Bompai, Kano.
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