About five gunmen in the early hours of Friday assassinated the Director of Operations, Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS), Malam Dauda.
The attackers reportedly breached the security of the KADGIS director’s house located in Barakallahu community in Igabi Local Government Area of the state where they killed him.
The assailants simply killed the victim and took off leaving all valuables in the house, Daily Trust quoted a community leader to have said.
It was also gathered that the gunmen attacked a nearby community probably to divert the attention of members of the community as they conducted their nefarious act. There was no casualty recorded in the attack on the community.
District head Muhammad Abdullahi said the divisional police officers (DPOs) of Rigachikun and Barnawa who are residents of the community have visited the scene of the crime.
“This is simply a case of assassination because they only went to the victim’s house, killed him and left the community, they did not take anything in his house neither did they attack the guard and his wife,” Abdullahi reportedly said.
“Even in the other village that was attacked, no life was lost, they just caused commotion and left, we feel they just did that to make it look like an attack.
“We have been facing various security breaches in the community informed by the vast ungoverned land taken over by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), you know we were in court, we won at the high court but they appealed the case at the Appeal Court here in Kaduna.”
He called on the state government to mediate between the community and the NAF over the vast land which he said is a hiding place for criminals.
The police were yet to respond to the reported incident as of the time of this report.
