Tragedy occurred as unknown gunmen have killed a renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Goni Aisami Gashuwa while on his way back to Gashu’a town from Kano State.
The scholar said a report that he was killed at about 10 pm Friday night after the suspected assailants stopped his vehicle at Chakama village, three kilometers to Jajimaji, the headquarters of Karasuwa Local Government Area of Yobe State.
“From all indications, the scholar was followed by the assailants who thought he carried along with him a huge amount of money. After they had gunned him down, they stabbed him with a knife and then dragged his corpse and dumped it under a raffia tree”, a source told newsmen