By Sarah NEGEDU
A first aid official with the Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah, JIBWIS, in the Federal Capital Territory, Khalid Adamu, was killed in the early hours of Thursday, in what family members described as an assignation.
The incident occurred at his residence in Zamani village, near the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Adamu, who was the Financial Secretary of the JIBWIS First Aid Group in Lugbe, was reportedly attacked by a gang of about 20 men, five of whom broke into his home and engaged him in a violent confrontation.
His elder sister, Rabiatu Danjuma, told Abuja Metro that the assailants overpowered him in his bedroom, where he was with his wife, and inflicted multiple machete wounds to his head and body.
“They engaged him in fighting before cutting him around his head and other parts of his body.
“One of them who stood over my younger sister in the sitting room had told her that they were sponsored to kill him,’’ she said.
The late Khalid, who was a cargo clearance agent at the Abuja airport, left no child, parents behind. He was however said to have adopted children from his relatives and took care of them.
The Chairman of the JIBWIS Tafseer Committee in the FCT, Imam Yunusa Musa Almadani, confirmed that the deceased was buried at noon on Thursday.
Efforts to reach the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, were unsuccessful as calls went unanswered at the time of filing this report.
