Popular Yobe religious Scholar has been ssassinated by unidentified gunmen when he was returning to Gashu’a town from Kano State.
According to reports, the scholar was killed at around 10 p.m. on Friday after the alleged attackers stopped his car at Chakama village, three kilometers from Jajimaji, the administrative center of Yobe State’s Karasuwa Local Government Area.
“From all indications, the scholar was followed by the assailants who thought he carried along with him a huge amount of money. After they had gunned him down, they stabbed him with a knife and then dragged his corpse and dumped it under a raffia tree”, a source told newsmen.
DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, the spokesman of the Yobe State Police Command, has confirmed the incident, noting that some suspects have been arrested in connection to the crime.
He added that the suspects are under investigation at the CID in Damaturu.
However, it was learnt that residents of Gashu’a town the headquarters of Bade Local Government Area of Yobe were thrown into confusion when the news of the murder of the highly-revered Islamic scholar broke.
It was gathered that Sheikh Goni Aisami Gashuwa had spent the last 30 years preaching in the area and across the state.
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