Gunmen on Saturday shot and killed a 46-year-old tanker driver, Usman Zakari, near the Central Mosque on Obeya Street at Anyigba in Dekina LGA of Kogi State in the process.
A witness said the gunmen drove in a bus into the family compound of the driver around 4pm and shot him in front of the house.
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It was learnt that Zakari was shot in front of the same house where a son of the Imam of Anyigba, a 25-year-old graduate, Yusuf Labaran, was killed last December.
The state’s police command’s spokesman, SP William Aya, confirmed the incident, saying, “One Mustapha Zakari was reported to have lodged a complaint of the killing of his younger brother, Usman Zakari, by gunmen,” adding that the command had ordered investigation into the case.
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