No fewer than five unknown gunmen, in the early hours yesterday morning, killed a Senior Staff of the Kaduna Geographical Information Service, (KADGIS), Director of Operations, Dauda Aliyu, in Igabi local government area of the State.
According to reports, the killers breached the security of the victims house, located in Barakallahu community, went inside the room and shot him multiple times until he died before leaving his premises.
District Head of the community, Alhaji Muhammad Abdullahi, who confirmed the incident to newsmen on Friday, said the Divisional Police Officers of Rigachikun and Barnawa, who are residents of the community, have visited the scene of the crime.
The District Head, who described the killing as a case of assassination, noted that they only went to the victims house, killed him and left the community, saying they did not take anything in his house neither did they attack the guard and his wife.
The Police authorities in the State are yet to confirm if it is a case of bandit attack or pure assassination. The State’s Police Public Relations Officer, ASP. Muhammad Jalige, did not respond to text messages and calls to his phone as at the time of filing this report.
