Alhaji Hamza Abdullahi Kogo, the district head of Yankuzo of Tsafe Emirate in Zamfara State has been killed by bandits.
Sources said that the bandits attacked the district head on his way back to his community from an official engagement last Friday, December 9, around 8pm.
He was shot and wounded in the attempt to abduct him. Kogo was rushed to the Federal Medical Center in Gusau, the state capital where he later died on Saturday night.