From Mustapha Adamu, Kano
Unidentified gunmen have killed the Village Head of Rimingado Local Government area, Alhaji Dahiru Abbas on Sunday.
Late Abbas is the father of Barrister Munir Dahiru, serving Chairman of Rimingado Local Government are in the state.
A nephew to the deceased, Alhaji Sanusi Abbas, told Justice Watch newspaper in Kano that the yet-to-be identified gunmen stormed the residence of the deceased in Maigari village in the wee hours of Sunday.
Abbas, who is a newly-appointed Permanent Secretary, revealed that when the gunmen came, they inflicted various injuries on the deceased’s body before one of them shot him to death.
He informed that the funeral service would take place at 10am on Sunday at the deceased’s residence in Maigari village.
When contacted, the mobile phone of the spokesman of the Police Command in the state, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, was switched off and no reply to the text message sent to him as at the time of filing this report.
