By Chizoba Ogbeche
Abuja
Numana Community Development Organisation (NCDO) has condemned in strong terms the brutal assassination of its paramount traditional ruler, Etum Nunama, Dr. Gambo Makama, his wife and two others on Sunday, December 31, 2017.
The community in a press statement, yesterday, signed by its National President, Mr. Sabo Gwamna, and its National Secretary, Mr. Mbachi Jonathan Adams, called on security agencies to fish out the perpetrators and ensure they are brought to book.
It read in part: “The paramount traditional ruler, who was the Chairman, Traditional Council, Sanga local government and his wife were murdered, his vehicle, house and other valuables were also burnt by yet -to -be identified killers at his ancestral village Tsauni Ayuba (Asik), when he left his palace at Gwantu, the Sanga local government headquarters to celebrate the New Year with his brethren.”
According to the community, “The two others were also killed outside the same village; their bodies were recovered the following day.
“Apart from the killing of the paramount ruler, his wife and two others, the killers also shot his son. He is currently receiving treatment in the hospital.”
NODC said the socio- cultural umbrella body of the Numana ethnic group in Nigeria, “therefore sees this gruesome murder of our paramount ruler as one too many, considering that in recent times, the Sanga local government area, and in fact, the entire Southern Kaduna has been serially attacked and many people killed by these merchants of death.
The body called on sons and daughters of Numana all over the country, especially in Gwantu, the Sanga local government headquarters, to remain calm and not take the law into their hands.
It appealed to Forward Operation Base (FOB) of 2 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Zango Kataf and the Kaduna state Police Command to take proactive measures to protect our people from these deadly killers.
