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How gunmen killed Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Goni Aisami-Gashua in Yobe

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2 years ago

2022/08/21

Gunmen on Saturday killed a Yobe-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Goni Aisami-Gashua at Jajimaji, the headquarters of Karasuwa local government council of the state.

The cleric was said to be travelling from Gashua to Kano when he was followed in a bus by the attackers.

Some Gashua residents told Channels Television that the incident happened around 10am at Jajimaji, a distance of less than 30 kilometers away from Gashua, the hometown of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.

Police spokesman in the state, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, in a telephone conversation with our correspondent said suspects wielding AK-47 rifles have been arrested and are in police custody.

Gashua has been one of the most peaceful communities in the state, even at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency.

Bulama Bukarti, VP of Programs at Bridgeway Foundation | Senior Fellow on SSA at @InstituteGC also shared insights into how the scholar was killed.

Shaykh Goni Aisami was the most popular Muslim cleric in Gashu’a, my hometown. He’s killed on Friday by a soldier who claimed to be on duty & begged for a lift from Nguru to Jajimaji town. On their way, the soldier stopped & shot him 3 times and dumped his body to steal his car. pic.twitter.com/2yLqxPwsNI
— Bulama Bukarti (@bulamabukarti) August 21, 2022

But Shaykh Aisami‘s car failed to re-start. The solider summoned his friend who’s also a soldier. Both spent the whole night trying to start the car. In the morning, villagers saw the body and reported to the police who arrested both suspects still struggling to start the car.
— Bulama Bukarti (@bulamabukarti) August 21, 2022

The beasts must be brought justice swiftly and the government must pay his family full compensation. That’s because the killer used his position & gun as a soldier and it was the negligence of the authorities that allowed him leave the barracks with a gun when he wasn’t on duty.
— Bulama Bukarti (@bulamabukarti) August 21, 2022