The five people believed to be Igbo traders were said to have been shot dead at Madala Market on Thursday Night between 7 – 8pm.

Our correspondent reliably gathered that the yet to be identified gunmen were said to have stormed the Madala market and made straight to a shop believed to be that of some Igbo traders and ordered them to recite the Holy Quran of which they could not.

The gunmen who were not satisfied with the development opened fire on the five people at close range leaving them dead immediately.

An alarm which was raised by other traders close to the shop where the five people were killed attracted passers by who sent a distress call to the Divisional Police Officer Suleja where a detachment of armed police were drafted to the scene.

However, before the police men could arrive the spot, the gunmen had already fled, leaving their casualties in their own blood.

The five casualties were later identified as John Kalu, Oliver Ezemah, Uche Nguweze, Sunday Emmanuel while fifth casualty was yet to be identified as at the time of going to press.

The identity of the gunmen are yet to be ascertained by people of the town and even the police who have swung into investigation.

An eye witness account told our correspondent no valuables were removed from the shop of the victims after they might have been gun down which invariably confirms that the gunmen were not armed robbers but suspected to be Boko Haram sect members.

Niger State police Command spokesman ASP Richard Adamu Oguche confirmed the story but could not also ascertain the originality of the gunmen.

He assured that police in the state are on top of the issue and called on the people in the state embrace peace.

Source: Vanguard News

http://www.reportsafrique.com/2015/11/5-igbo-traders-killed-for-failing-to-recite-quran-in-niger-state/

This cannot be true.

Buhari, must not dissapoint. Those killers must be found and sentenced to die by hanging, period!

This is not Islamic country.

. Hmm

Can someone confirm? Me sef go join Igbo people on this one to put down the govt and the Arewa leaders if this is true.

What are my doing with an unsourced news from 2015

The killers will know no Peace anywhere ever and all of them and their relations will perish IJN AMEN !!!!

I doubt this story,show us pictures but then anything is possible in this country especially now a jihadist,an Islamic fanatic and a joyous murder is at the realm of affairs.
Islam is a curse,an end time religion.

crusadistic:
What are my doing with an unsourced news from 2015

Well, I didnt know this was November of last year. Did they arrest the killers?

Old news...

@op, keep trying until that embers of religious crises u have been faning finally consume u. Pls don't give up.

DSS will not say anything now, when some of these abokis start disappearing down here you will see them go fuming in their mouth.

this story is twisted, I heard from a reliable source that 50 Hausa traders have been shot in aba for falling to receite the Bible.......idiotic fools believe this and you will believe anything

So sad