Bandits have reportedly launched a deadly attack on official vehicles conveying the Kajuru LG council chairman, his predecessor and several others, killing the ex-council chairman Ibrahim Gajere and several others in Kajuru LGA of Kaduna State.
The incident has sparked widespread condemnations and suspicion about the circumstances surrounding the attack.
A civil rights activist and chieftain of the ruling party, Hon. Isa Dansalla, has described the attack as an assassination of the ex-council boss, Hon. Ibrahim Gajere.
Hon. Isa Dansalla said that the victim, Hon. Gajere, was assassinated in an incident which occurred on Monday when the victim and several others were returning from the village after the burial of the late father of a Kaduna State Assembly member, Hon. Single Usman.
He said the serving council chairman, Hon. Dauda Magaji, persuaded the former council chairman, Ibrahim Gajere, to attend the burial ceremony of the state lawmaker’s father in a village known for insecurity.
According to Hon. Dansalla, the current council chairman, Hon. Madaki, persuaded Hon. Gajere; they were both brought up in the same family as the victim.
According to him, Gajere earlier declined interest for fear of his security but later agreed and travelled with the chairman in the official vehicles and others in the official cars.
Hon. Dansalla further stated that the chairman’s car was attacked by the alleged bandits on their way back from the village when the former council chairman and others were attacked and brutally shot dead, but the current council chairman miraculously escaped death from vehicles that were all burnt to ashes due to attacks by the assailants.
Narrating the ugly incident to our reporter on the phone, Hon. Dansalla, who hailed from the village, stated that “Yes, I happened to come across a post, a YouTube post about the sudden death of a former chairman of Kajuru local government, Ibrahim Gajere, and wanted to buttress that point.
“I was chairman of the APC in Kajuru. After my time, I have had several successors including the present chairman who happens to be Honorable Dauda Madaki
“But the former chairman, who happens to be Hon. Ibrahim Gajere, was assassinated by unknown gunmen on Monday, last Monday.
“And the incidents happen this way. The state Assembly member of our local government, who happens to be Hon. Single Usman’s father, died, and he insisted that the burial must be done in the remote village, troubled by lots of insecurity.
“When he insisted, people had no choice. And you know, in the northern tradition, when somebody is in a political position like that,
People want to avail themselves.
“Then, this Ibrahim Gajere, who happens to be the former elected local government council chairman, was contacted, and he told the people that contacted him that he cannot go there because of his security.
“So the present local government chairman, who happens to be Hon. Dauda Madaki, contacted him, and this person happened to have been brought up in their family house.
“He is the one that recommended Hon. Madaki to be a local government chairman to the executive governor, Senator Uba Sani.
“He was brought up in the house of the other former chairman, Gajere, and Gajere was the one that got him into the limelight.
“Do you remember the controversial chairman, the local government chairman, that said that Kurmin Wali people were not kidnapped? It’s the same for the water channel we’re talking about.
“He now called the former chairman, who happened to be his political godfather. He was brought up in their family house of Gajere.
“He was the one that has promoted him to the governor to become a chairman. He now invited the Gajere, and say now that people invited to go to the burial of the father of our Assembly member, are there and say your
Are you not going to go because of insecurity?
“Sir, I bet you’re indulgent. We have insecurity. Please, I’m coming to pick you up with our official cars, sir. Let’s go for the burial, sir. And the man complied and followed him.
“They went for the burial, sir. To my greatest surprise, the honourable member of the State House of Assembly, Single Usman, who is bereaved, packed his family and brought them back to Kaduna City, an urban city.
“He himself did not go to the burial and was not there with his family but allowed other people to go there for the burial. “He was not there with his family, sir,” he lamented.
He also said, “When they were coming back in the company of the chairman with Gajere, the former chairman was inside the official car of the present chairman, Madaki. He was attacked alongside four other vehicles by unknown gunmen, and that car and every other car was burnt to ashes, including everything and the driver.
“I don’t know how miraculous what happened at last was, how the local government chairman escaped that attack, but the former chairman was killed instantly.
“Sir, Ibrahim Gajere’s corpse was not detected until today, Thursday, in the afternoon. And as I’m talking to you, the body, the corpse that could not even be realised at the time, after three days, is now deposited in St Gerard Catholic Hospital this evening of Thursday.
“Sir, this is a grand conspiracy, and we demand justice, sir. I am a civil society activist. I’m into NGOs,” he added.
He also narrated the story of an incident when the Nigeria Police Colleges dismissed their trainee after six months of bitter training on allegations of being HIV positive, saying his intervention as a civil society activist saved the situation, as the trainee was returned with the help of his publication in the media.
“They have learned how to handle suspected weapons, how to service them, and how to deter them, but based on the findings of their medical reports, they were dismissed 10 days before passing out. And the only weapon I used at that time was the media,” he stated.
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