Father of 3 killed in Abuja raid seeks justice

A 67-year-old herder, Alhaji Mohammed Suleiman Maifadama, who lost three of his sons during a reported raid by hunters and the police on a Fulani settlement in Shereti village, Kabusa ward of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), has vowed to ensure justice for his late children.

Abuja Metro reported that the herder had on December 22, 2024, confirmed to our reporter over the phone the alleged killing of his three children when hunters and policemen raided his camp at Shereti in Kabusa area of Abuja on December 17, 2024.

The herder said since the incident, he had been unable to sleep, even as he said his only surviving son who sustained bullet injuries is still recuperating at the hospital.

He said he has been residing at the camp for over 28 years and that neither him nor any of family members ever had a disagreement with anybody or engaged in any crime.

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He said, “I have been residing in Shereti village for 28 years rearing cows and I have never had any disagreement with anybody, nor was any of my children found to have engaged in any kind of crime. But one day, some security personnel and hunters just invaded my camp and killed three of my children.’’

He said he suspected one of his kinsman, residing about one kilometer away from his camp, as the mastermind of the attack on his family.

“Yes, I suspect my kinsman to be the mastermind of the attack on my family because that very day the incident happened, the man fled his camp alongside his family and cows, which up till this moment I am talking to you, he is yet to be located,” he said.

Maifadama, however, claimed that he was able to identify two among the hunters who invaded his camp, adding a pair of handcuffs and some live bullets abandoned by the hunters were recovered and handed over to the police.

He appealed to the FCT Police Commissioner, OlatunjiRilwanDisu, to intensify investigation into the incident and arrest those behind the attack on his family.