Bandits Kill Monarch In Zamfara

Bandits ambushed a village in Zamfar killing the district head of Yankuzo, Alhaji Hamza Abdullahi Kogo of Tsafe Emirate in Zamfara State.

Channels Television gathered that, last Friday around 8pm the district head while on his was back from an official engagement was attacked by the bandits.

Sources from the area said in an attempt to abduct the monarch he was shot.

He was later rushed to the Federal Medical Center in Gusau, the state capital where he later died on Saturday night.

Yankuzo is the hometown of the notorious bandit kingpin, Ado Aleru who was conferred with Traditional title in Yandoton Daji Emirate in July this year.

Many residents of Yankuzo community said the community has never witnessed bandits’ attack since the inception of banditry within the state.

Police authorities in the state are yet to comment on the latest incident.

(ChannelsTV)