Bandits kill Kaduna lawmaker, abduct others
Story from Saleh INUWA, Kano
A serving lawmaker in Kaduna State House of Assembly representing Giwa constituency, Honourable Rilwanu Gadagau was killed by bandits on Monday on his way to Kaduna from Zaria.
Former Senator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani was the first to break the news through his Twitter handle. According to him, scores of people were arrested.
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Honourable Gadagau who represented Giwa Constituency in the house before he was killed was also the Chairman House Committee on Local Government and Rural Development.
He was reported to have been killed on Monday night by bandits who attacked travellers on Zaria – Kaduna Highway, killing many people and abducting many others. His body was later found later today, Wednesday, December 15, 2021.
In another development, Shila Ojebola, a Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) staff has been murdered by bandits after collecting the sum of N7 million ransom from his family for his release.
Sources have it that Ojebola was recently promoted to the position of a manager at the FIRS’ Medium & Small Tax Office in Lugbe, Abuja.
The promotion was said to have come when Ojebola was in the bandits’ camp after he was kidnapped along Abuja-Kaduna Highway about three weeks ago.
A family source said, “He was promoted to the post of a manager while in their camp,”.
The police and State Security Service (SSS) were said to have been involved in the ransom after the bandits demanded N7 million.
Over the past year, the Abuja-Kaduna Highway has become a danger zone with massive kidnappings and killings of travellers.
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