Bandits on two motorcycles have shot dead a man identified as Garba Aliyu at the Rijana community in Kachia LGA of Kaduna State.
A community leader from the area, who confirmed to our reporter through telephone on Wednesday, said the incident happened around 11:46pm on Tuesday.
He said the bandits came to the community on two motorcycles and went straight to his house and opened fire on him.
He said the deceased, who is a renowned farmer that cultivate large hectares of land in the community, had escaped attacks twice when some bandits invaded his house two weeks ago.
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According to him, the bandits saw the deceased as a threat to them for giving useful information to soldiers and security agencies leading to the killing of some bandits at the neighbouring Mai -Iddo village.
He said, “Reliably, one of the security agents even confirmed that the reason why they killed the man was because he had been giving security agencies clues about the movement of bandits.”
He said the bandits fled the scene with their motorcycles immediately after killing the man, saying his remains have been buried according to Islamic rites.
The spokesman for the Kaduna State Police Command, ASP Hassan Mansur, could not be reached for comments on the incident.
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