Gunmen suspected to be members of Islamic sect have gunned down the secretary of Dikwa local government, Alhaji Kachallah Umara in Gomari ward of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
DailyPost gathered that the late Alhaji Kachallah Umara was killed on Thursday evening, at about 7 pm, in his resident.
Eye witness who did not want his name in print told DailyPost that, the gunmen, who were four in number arrived at the area and asked of the late secretary, but when they could not have access, they left, only to appear after a few hours, when one of his wives was going into the house, forcing themselves into the house.
” We heard gunshots and then the women were wailing and we waited in our houses until we were sure that it was now safe to go out.”
He said after he had been shot severally and they attackers took off, the people within the area alerted the security operatives who came and took the body of the late secretary to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital,UMTH.
Although there was no confirmation from the police as at the time of this report on the killing, one of the local government secretaries in Borno who did not want his name in print confirmed to DailyPost that one of their colleagues had been killed by some unknown gunmen.
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