Three gunmen suspected to be hired assassins on Thursday killed the Head of Science Department at the Niger State Polytechnic, Malam Abdulrashid Abdullahi, along Zungeru-Tegina road, while on official assignment to Kaduna State.
He was shot dead at an abandoned check point after the Zungeru Bridge at about 8am.
The deceased had been penciled down as the polytechnic’s next rector.
Abdullahi’s cousin, Malam Hussaini Babangida told journalists in Zungeru that they left for Kaduna at about 7am and got to the abandoned check point where the gunmen attacked them few minutes later.
Recounting their ordeal, Babangida said, “when I was stopped I thought they were security men, but no sooner that I stopped the gunmen headed for his (Abdullahi) side and attempted to force his door open by hacking it with a machete. Sensing danger I quickly drove away.
“In that situation, the only thing I heard from him was that he had been shot as they could not open his door. Even as I was escaping the gunmen were still raining bullets on the car, especially his side, but on getting back to Zungeru, he was pronounced dead at the hospital.”
He said nothing was taken from the vehicle, apart from the attack on the lecturer and himself by the gunmen.
“It was sad that they killed my cousin for undisclosed reasons,” Babangida lamented. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Which kind story be this. Make dem question that cousin abeg. The story no gel.
ReplyDelete... pencilled down as the next rector... The Poly authorities should be mirrored too.
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