Unknown gunmen yesterday shot dead a Peoples
Democratic Party ( PDP) chieftain, Chief Atoza Hidan in Katsina Ala, Benue
State..Also shot dead around
Yoyo District in the town were 12 other people after an attack the gunmen
launched on the settlement. According to an eyewitness Chief Hidan was shot
while inspecting a work done at his building near the Federal Low Cost Housing
estate in Katsina Ala.
He was said to have been
killed in the presence of his police orderly and his assistant, who were with
him at the site of the building project.
The gunmen were said to
have arrived on a motorcycle and immediately opened fire on the Second Republic
lawmaker who was sitting under a tree.
He was said to have been
shot in the head by the gunmen who fled immediately, giving him no room to
survive.
The killing of Chief
Hidan brought to seven the number of PDP members killed by unknown gunmen in
Katsina Ala in recent times.
The son of the late
politician and the immediate past commissioner for commerce and industry, Terfa
Hidan, described the death of his father as shocking and unfortunate .
In a telephone interview
with The Nation, the son of the deceased described his father as an easy going
man and wondered the motive behind his killing .
Police spokesman, DSP
Austine Ezeala, confirmed the incident, saying that 14 persons had been
arrested with armed and ammunition in Makurdi in the last one week .
He said investigations
had commenced to fish out the culprits
- Th Nation
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