Suspected
Fulani herdsmen have beheaded the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
in Bare ward in the Numan Local Government Area, Adamawa State, Charles
Chrisanthus.
The
politician was reportedly killed in the presence of his wife, Dorcas, in his
farm on August 29, 2018.
The
widow of the slain PDP chieftain is, however, accusing the police of shielding
the killers of her husband.
Speaking
in an interview with our correspondent at the State Criminal Investigation
Department where she had gone to lodge her complaint on Tuesday, Dorcas told
Northern City News that only justice for her slain husband would bring her
peace.
She
said she was holding her four-month old son and watched helplessly as the
assailants hacked her husband to death.
“His
attackers led by our Fulani neighbours repeatedly stabbed him on the back and
on his stomach before beheading my husband in our farm and made away with his
head,” she said.
Claiming
to have made some arrests, the police had invited the widow of the slain ward
chairman and three other female witnesses to the state Criminal Investigation
Department for their statements.
It
was at the CID that the families of the deceased were alerted to the
whereabouts of the suspected killers.
The
bereaved families, it was learnt, discovered that some of the suspects arrested
in connection with the killing were receiving medical attention at an
undisclosed hospital.
Dorcas
said she could identify her husband’s killers, insisting that the police were
shielding them from answering for their crime.
“The
police under the guise of allowing the suspects to seek medical attention are
shielding those that killed my husband. The only thing I want is justice,” she
stated.
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