Gunmen kill Niger Polytechnic lecturer
(Nigeria) The Head of the Science Department at the Niger
State Polytechnic, Alhaji Abdulrashid Abdullahi, was on Thursday killed by
three gunmen on the Zungeru-Tegina highway, reports NAN.
It was learnt in Minna that Abdullahi was killed while on an
official trip to Kaduna.
According to Abdullahi’s driver, Malam Hussaini Babangida,
the gunmen stopped them at an abandoned check-point after the Zungeru Bridge.
``I stopped because I thought they were security men but
they immediately went for Abdullahi’s door with a machete. I tried to drive
away but I heard the lecturer shout, I have been shot as they could not open
his door. I drove the vehicle very fast back to Zungeru, where the lecturer was
pronounced dead at a hospital,” he said.
He said that nothing was taken away from them.
“It is sad that they killed my cousin for undisclosed
reasons,” Babangida said.
The state's Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Richard
Oguche, confirmed the incident.
Oguche described the attack as a robbery attempt, saying
that the police had begun investigation into the incident to bring the
attackers to justice.
When contacted the state’s Commissioner for Tertiary
Education, Dr Bashar Nuhu, also confirmed the incident.
Nuhu described Abdullahi as a humble and hardworking
lecturer.
The commissioner expressed his ministry's condolences to
Abdullahi's family and the polytechnic community.
He prayed that Almighty Allah would grant him eternal bliss
and his family the fortitude to bear the loss.
``I'm touch by his death,” he said.
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