Metro/Crime
Prominent Nigerian traditional ruler shot dead inside palace
Information reaching the OsunReporters News has it that some unknown gunmen on Thursday night have shot dead Alhaji Abdulmutalib Jankada, traditional ruler of Sansani chiefdom in Gassol local government area of Taraba state.
Reports revealed that the assailants who rode into Sansani town on motorcycles, sneaked into the palace to gun down their target. The gunmen went straight to a room where the Monarch was sitting and shot him severally, seizing his phones afterwards.
,,,,,,,,Sources revealed that the monarch died on the spot, while the attack took palace guards and family members unaware.
,,,,,,,,“The late chief told us Yesterday that he was traveling to Ibbi for Nwonyo fishing Festival which is taking place on Friday and Saturday. We never knew the Chief did not travel Yesterday evening so when we heard the gunshots, we did not suspect it was inside the palace,” he said.
,,,::?;;;;;He said the gunmen silently left the town after killing the monarch and it was his wife who found him dead inside his room that raised alarm which attracted the entire people in the town and other towns in the chiefdom.
____””””””;;;;::“We are mourning and the late chief will be buried after Friday prayers,” he said
;;;;”””The late chief was abducted along Jalingo-Wukari road two years ago and ransom was paid before his release.
At the time of filing this report, detail about the reason for his assasination and burial arrangements were still sketchy.
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