By Lola Idahosa, Kaduna
There was pandemonium in Kaduna Tuesday when heavily armed young men known as ‘Sara Suka’ group invaded Ungwan Rimi area of Kaduna metropolis, killing a 22 year old man.
Newsdiaryonline gathered that, the group numbering about 20 invaded Ungwan Rimi carrying dangerous weapons in their sporadic attack on the community and in the process killed one Shamsudeen Abdulhamid.
Eye witnesses who spoke to our correspondent reported that, the 20- man gang invaded the community in three tricycles (Keke NAPEP) and started attacking any young man in sight.
It was gathered that, Shamsudeen who was a carpenter, was on his way to his workshop when he ran into the dangerous gang, along Jama’a road in Ungwan Rimi.
An eye witness, Usman Aliyu said the gang members started macheting the late Shamsudeen and even used a stone to smash his head, while shouting in Hausa, who so ever can save him to come out, we are on ground waiting for such person.
The eye witness added that seeing the kind of weapons brandished by the gang, residents had no option but to run for their lives which made the gang to have had a field day without confrontation from anybody’.
Speaking to newsmen at Shehu Laminu Road residence of the deceased, his mother, Hajiya Husaina Abubakar said her son bade her farewell around 8.10 in the morning and about 40 minutes later she received a call that her son is at Barau Dikko Specialist Hospital dead.
She further said that her late son was a peace loving man whom she could not remember of having any problem with anybody.
The elder brother of the deceased, Aminu Abdullhamid, said when he got the information about what happened to his brother, he organised some people and rushed to the scene where they saw him in a pool of his blood with machete cuts all around his body and his head smashed open.
According to him, “we immediately used the uncle’s car to convey him to Ungwa Rimi Divisional Police office in order to get a police escort to the hospital, but the police told us we should go while they will meet us at the hospital. After much persuasion, they remained adamant; we had to take the body to Barau Dikko hospital.
“It was on our way to the hospital that we saw the Commissioner of Police coming in a convoy, we used our car to block him and showed him the badly wounded Shamsudeen in our car. One of the officers in his convoy asked us to take him straight to the hospital, where he later gave up the ghost,” he said.
The Police Public Relations Officer of Kaduna State Police Command,DSP Zubairu Abdullahi, said the police is on top of the situation and crack team has been deployed to the area to restore order.
As at the time of filing this report, about 12 Hilux vehicle of the Kaduna State Security outfit ‘Operation Yakl’ filled with security operatives were seen patrolling Ungwa Rimi community.
Meanwhile, Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has condemned the gang attack.
The governor’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan confirmed that the skirmishes left one person dead while vehicles and properties were also destroyed.
According to Aruwan, the governor has however directed Kaduna State Police Command and Ministry of Justice to swing into action and prosecute all culprits involved in the uprising.
