Gunmen Strike in Kogi, Kill Labour Leader, Two Others

Unions suspend negotiations with govt

The Kogi State Chairman of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Secondary School, Science and Technology Education Board (STEB), Mallam Abdulmumini Yakubu, has been murdered by unknown gun men.

However, the organised labour in the state yesterday suspended their ongoing negotiation with the state government on salary crisis over the death of NASU chairman. The labour leader was murdered at Ozuwaya in Okene council area of the state alongside one Mallam Ibrahim Otaru who came to discuss some community issue with him.

Sources close to the family disclosed toTHISDAYthat they were murdered by heavily armed gunmen when he was performing ‘ablution’ to observed his prayer.

The sources added that the assassin numbering five alighted from a Toyota Sienna van and open fire on them.

It was further gathered that the sound of the gun made people run for their lives while the alleged gunmen made sure that he was dead before they zoomed off from the scene.

One of the relations with name withheld disclosed to journalists that the death of Yakub was a great tragedy for the Ozuwa ya and education community as well as Ansarul Islam society of Nigeria Okene branch.

“Yakub at Ozuwaya in front of his house was killed by unknown gunmen as he was shot in the head together with one other person.

“It’s a compounded shame that our society has turned into blood society by taking innocent lives, whether for personal, worldly or whichever reasons,” he said.

Until his death, Yakub was a staff of Kogi State Science Teachers Board Lokoja, Kogi State NASU chairman and Ozuwaya community chairman.

In another development, unknown gunmen last Tuesday night murdered a 55-year-old man, identified as Abdulganiu Aduki, injured his five-year-old daughter and his wife at Nagazi in Adavi Local Government Area of the state.