Unknown gunmen, yesterday, killed the head of Maigari town in Rimin Gado Local Council of Kano State, Dahiru Abba.

The gunmen suspected to be bandits broke into the monarch’s residence Sunday Morning at about 2:00a.m. and assaulted him before they opened  fire on him.

The Chairman of the council, Munir Dahiru Maigari, who is  the deceased’s son, confirmed the incident.

“They came and did what they did as we are now preparing for his burial.

are now preparing for his burial.

We cannot say anything regarding the cause of what happened for now, but he is dead and we pray for God’s mercy on his soul.

“The burial ceremony will be conducted at his residence in Maigari village,” he lamented.

Contacted, spokesperson for Kano State Police Command, Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said the police were not aware of the incident, but promised to launch investigation into the matter.

MEANWHILE, Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, condemned the murder of both the Kano Monarch and Police Divisional Police Officer in Zamfara this same weekend.

The son of the murdered Emir, who is the chairman of Rimin Gado Local Council, Munir Dahiru Maigari, confirmed the incident happened on Saturday  at about 2:00a.m.

Consequently,  HURIWA, in a statement by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, noted that the continued unleashing of violence against soft targets all across Nigeria by terrorists, bandits, armed herdsmen and kidnappers meant the President’s avowal was meaningless.

The group recalled that the President, speaking from his country home in Daura, Katsina State, while virtually inaugurating 700 Ashok Leyland’s Troop-Carrying Vehicles assembled in Lagos, said his regime remained committed to winning the war against terrorism and other forms of insecurity and would stop at nothing to ensure citizens have a new Nigeria free from insecurity.

According to HURIWA, President Muhammadu Buhari’s words mean nothing to millions of Nigerians who have heard the same empty and irrelevant promises in the last eight years.

The group described the government of President Muhammadu Buhari as a spectacular failure in the area of safeguarding life and property of citizens all across the country.

It wondered whether President Muhammadu Buhari himself takes out some of his private time to feel the pulse and heartbeat of Nigerians and to hear first hand from ordinary Nigerians.

HURIWA said:  “ It seems the administration lacks a conscience and a sense of shame, otherwise the President wouldn’t be repeating himself over one hundred times in the media, making same deliberately unattainable promises to end terrorism and violence in the country, which escalated due to inaction and ineffectiveness of his government, but could have proceeded to let actions speak for the administration by delivering swift justice to terrorists and the masterminds of all the bloody attacks all around Nigeria.”

HURIWA  asked President Muhammadu Buhari as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to inform Nigerians why the Armed forces under his command and control have failed to apprehend any of the 19 terrorists declared wanted by the Defence headquarters, since November last year.

Source: The Guardian