By Dipo Olowookere
Reports from Kogi State indicate that Chairman of the state chapter’s Miyetti-Allah Association, Mr Ibrahim Abubakar, has been assassinated by unknown gunmen.
Mr Abubakar was reportedly murdered in the wee hours of Saturday by some unknown hoodlums, who raided his residence.
Gunshots were reportedly heard by neighbours this morning, which scared them and made them stay indoors throughout the operation that lasted about an hour.
It was after the gunmen left that they reportedly learnt who their victim was.
According to reports, the assassins, numbering about eight, stormed the residence of the deceased located at Road 3, Ganaja road, Lokoja around 2:05am and killed him.
“I was in my room which is just steps away to his house and I started hearing gunshots.
“Then I rose up from my bed and looked through the window. I saw a group of bandits in two lines. At least I saw eight people, and they started shooting, shooting and shooting.
“The next thing that I saw was that a bullet hit the overhead tank and water started running down. Later I and my family went quiet for a while; then the wife of the deceased came out shouting, ‘they have killed my husband,” a medical practitioner with the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, Dr Sam Alhassan, who lives a stone throw from the victim’s residence narrated.
Meanwhile, police in the state have launched an investigation into the incident and have vowed to bring those behind it to book.
Modupe Gbadeyanka 
Adedapo Adesanya