Tension in Abuja community over murder of herdsman

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Tension in Abuja community over murder of herdsman
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The harmonious co-existence between herdsmen and Gbegi community in Abuja Municipal Area Council is currently threatened by...

The harmonious co-existence between herdsmen and Gbegi community in Abuja Municipal Area Council is currently threatened by the gruesome murder of a twenty-year old herder, Mustapha Iliyasu.The victim was allegedly waylaid by a group of Gbegi youths suspected to be members of a dreaded cult gang terrorizing the community was hacked to death in the presence of his pregnant wife, Mariam Iliyasu, who he was trying to protect him from the assailants.

Narrating the incident to The Nation, Haruna said he sent the victim to deliver a cow to a customer where he was eventually attacked and killed. “When I asked them what happened, they told me that they were going home after they have delivered the cow when some boys armed with machetes stopped them and started dragging the only woman among them who happened to be the wife of the victim. At that point he came out to stop them from taking the wife away and they attacked him with cutlasses and killed him and fled”.

“We want the Police to give us the corpse for burial but we are demanding that every person that was involved should be brought to book”.

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