FCT Indigene Murdered In Cold Blood

Panic, tears and sorrow were the order of the day Thursday night in Utako village, Abuja, following the gruesome murder of a 27-year-old man by a 4-man gang in the area.

FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed

Hunters weekly gathered that Alhassan Usman met his untimely death when an argument ensued between him and the teenage gangster who stabbed him to death.
Trouble started when the deceased was said to have rebuked the teenagers over their misconduct but the teenage did not take the action likely and instead stabbed Usman.
The father of the deceased, Madaki Musa, told reporters in Abuja that the gang had earlier threatened to deal with his son for cautioning them, a threat which they eventually made good in a most bizarre way at 7pm on the ill-fated day.
According to him, “There was a time those young boys went to the Primary school across the road and raped some young girls, so when the report came to the elders, they were summoned to the Chief's palace. The Chief decided to punish them in the palace. The same boys that stabbed my son, came back to the palace and told the elders that they should call the young girls in the primary to warn them, if not they will not stop raping them.”
“My son tried to caution them that they had no right to come to the community and talk to the elders rudely. They warned him to watch his back that they will be deal with him.”
The hoodlums had waited for a while after issuing the threat before carrying out the dastardly act on the victim.
With pain, the father of the deceased said, “We never expected that it would get to this level.”
Musa further narrated that he had just returned from the Mosque that night when he saw his son quarrelling with the four young boys.
The bereaved man said he had appealed to them not to quarrel and left them alone only to return to his house and get the shocking news that his son had been stabbed to death.
Giving an account of how the incident occurred, elder brother to the deceased, Usman Musa who witnessed the attack said trouble started when he and his younger brother left his room that fateful evening to pick up his car which had broken down somewhere.
“I saw my younger brother (the deceased) protecting his head with his hands, while they were beating him. I made attempts to stop them from hitting him on the head.  I had approached one of the boys to ask him what was wrong, but instead of answering me, he attacked me with a knife, but I was fast enough to notice, and I tried to hold him to draw the attention our neighbours.
“But he was fast and ran away, that was when I remembered my brother and started looking for him, but it was too late,  they had already stabbed him and people that saw him being stabbed had to rush him to the hospital. When I saw one of them, I chase him and caught him. We called the Police and they took him to the police station,” he recalled.
Meanwhile, the Hunter Weekly further gathered that some residents of the area took to the streets to protest the gruesome murder of the young man.
The protesting residents were said to have marched through the ever busy Jabi Express Way, down to Utako Police Station, carrying leaves; their procession hindered the flow of traffic.
They demanded for justice, and called on the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Administration to map out ways of ending teenage criminality in the territory.
Eyewitnesses said it took the intervention of the DPO of Utako Police Station, CSP Usman Umar to calm the frayed nerves of the protesters.
He was said to have taken the responsibility of personally escorting the protesters from the Police Station back to the village as he appealed to them not to take the law into their hands.
Umar was said to have assured them that justice would be done as the police in the area would do everything possible to arrest the three members of the gang who are at large.