Gunmen
suspected to be assassins on Monday murdered the pregnant daughter of Governor
Umaru Tanko Al-Makura’s campaign organisation Director-General, Alhaji Musa
Illu, Mrs. Amina Suleiman.
Mrs.
Suleiman, who was seven months pregnant, was found in the pool of her blood
with her neck cut and a knife stuck in her stomach.
Illu’s
younger brother, Namairo Babai, said the late Amina was killed in her home in
faraway Katsina State when her husband, Suleiman Mohammed, was away to Zaria
for his doctoral degree programme.
“Her
husband was on his way to Ahamadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. After the
weekend when he tried calling but couldn’t get her, he sent someone to check
just to be told that she was slaughtered.”
Babai
added that late Amina, who got married two years ago, was buried by 4 p.m. on
Tuesday in her husband’s home town in Katsina State.
On a visit to the family compound along Shendam Road, in Lafia, the Nasarawa
State capital yesterday, sympathisers and family members were seen consoling
the deceased father who was weeping profusely.
Among
the first callers was the wife of the state governor, Salamatu Tanko Al-Makura.
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