Barely three days after the Easter Sunday bomb explosion that claimed scores of innocent lives in Kaduna and 24 hours after the Chief Army Staff declared war against terrorists, unknown gunmen yesterday stormed Rigasa, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis, killing a schoolboy in the presence of his mum.
The victim identified as Mohammed Sani Adamu according to Daily Sun investigation was a final year student of Imam Secondary School, Makarfi Road. Daily Sun gathered that, his killers mistook Adamu who was on his Man’O War uniform for a soldier.
Elder brother of the deceased, Alhaji Mohammed Maikudi who confirmed the incident to Daily Sun said the gunmen shot Adamu twice in the presence of their mother who had sent him on errand
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According to Maikudi: “My brother was shot twice in the presence of my helpless mother. The gunmen thought my brother was a soldier probably because he was in his man-O war uniform.“He came back home in his Man’O War uniform and his mother sent him on errand to buy something for her in the market. Immediately he steps out of the house, the gunmen approached him in front of the house and shot him twice,” he stated.
He said the attackers who rode on a motorbike were three young boys of about 22 years of age, adding: “when they shot him, the mother came out shouting; ‘My Son is a Cadet Man’O War not a soldier. “On hearing the cry of my mother, the attackers zoomed off on the same bike. I cannot really identify them, but they are small boys. I believe it is because of the uniform they shot him, they thought he was a soldier,” said Maikudi.
The elder brother also told Daily Sun that Adamu was a final year student of Imam Secondary School, Makarfi Road, Rigasa who was on the verge of completing his final exams. The Police Command’s Public Relation Officer (PPRO), Aminu Lawan confirmed the incident, saying, investigation has commenced into the killing with a view to bringing the killers to book.
