Bandits have killed a legal practitioner identified as Barrister Ahmad Muhammad Abubakar in his home at Kotorkoshi Town, Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
Although the Zamfara State Police Command is yet to be briefed on the incident, a close associate of the lawyer confirmed the killing to Channels Television.
Identifying himself as Aminu Lawal Bungudu, he said the bandits invaded his house in the early hours of Wednesday and attacked him before he was eventually whisked away to an unknown destination.
Ahmad Muhammad Abubakar, who was killed today by suspected bandits at his residence in Kotorkoshi, Bungudu LGA of Zamfara State, NW #Nigeria, was the Welfare Secretary of @NigBarAssoc, Gusau Branch. pic.twitter.com/Pc85WilPfG
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“The bandits entered the house and saw his wife when she was trying to ease herself, they attacked her, when the wife screamed for help, that was when the husband came out,” Abubakar said.
“The bandits attacked the husband and was taken away, it was along the road they killed him, they left him in cold blood. What we are not sure is how he was killed, whether through the injuries he sustained during the initial attack in his house or he was killed along the road. But we found his lifeless body along the road.”
Confirming the incident to Channels Television via a telephone conversation, the Chairman of the Zamfara State Chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association, Junaidu Abubakar condemned the attack
He said, “Let me confirm to you that it is true, he was attacked in his house, the attackers did not take anything from his house, he was only picked and there were several machete injuries in his body.”
He said the bar will be holding an emergency meeting over the persistent attacks on its members by the terrorists in the state.
