A group of teenagers have attacked and killed a
resident of Utako village in the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja.
27-year-old Alhassan Musa was killed at about 7pm
last Thursday, January 23 by the young boys when
he attempted to settle a quarrel between them.
The teenage boys were said to have made the habit
of terrorizing residents of the area and raping young
girls in a nearby primary school.
Leadership reports :
The deceased’s father, Madaki Musa, who is still
grieving over his son’s death, told LEADERSHIP that
the incident occurred Thursday evening after he had
just returned from the mosque.
He said he saw his son engaged in an argument
with four young men who were not indigenes of the
community and he appealed to them to peacefully
settle whatever the issue was and left without
knowing that the boys were up to something
dangerous.
According to Musa, hardly had he settled into the
house before he was informed that his son had been
stabbed to death.
“I do not remember my son having a previous
quarrel with them apart from when the issue of
those young boys came up, that they go to the
primary school across the road to rape young girls.
So, when the report came to the elders, the boys
were called to the chief’s palace and they were
punished and the same boy who stabbed my son
came back to the palace and told the elders that
they should also call the young girls in the primary
school and warn them if not they will not stop
raping them.
“My son who was stabbed tried to caution them
that they had no right to come to the community
and speak to the elders in such disrespectful
manner and that was when they told him that he
should watch his back and that he would be dealt
with. That was the whole thing and we never
expected that it would get to this level,” he
explained.
The elder brother of the deceased, Usman Musa,
who witnessed the incident, said trouble started
when he left his room with his younger brother, the
deceased, to take air outside.
He said four teenage boys who may have laid
ambush on the late Alhassan pounced on him
immediately he came out of the house, beating and
hitting him on the head with heavy weapons.
“Just like what my father said, Alhassan rebuked
him for talking back at the elders in the palace,
saying he deserved to be punished for
insubordination and the boy was given six strokes of
the whip in the palace.
“I was surprised when I came outside my house and
saw my younger brother protecting his head with his
hands while they were beating him with sticks and
other weapons. I made attempts to stop them from
hitting him on the head and as I approached one of
the boys to ask him what was wrong, instead of
answering me, he attacked me with a dagger, but I
was fast enough to notice. I tried to hold him to
draw the attention of our neighbours to help us
apprehend him.
“But he was very smart and fast so, he ran way.
That was when I remembered my brother and
started looking for him, but it was too late as they
had already stabbed him and people who saw him
being stabbed rushed him to the hospital. At that
point, I saw one of them and caught him. That was
the one we took to the police station and he is still
in police custody,” Usman narrated.
The national president of Greater Gbagyi
Development Initiative (GG-DIN), Prince Gimba
Gbaiza, condemned the murder and blamed school
authorities in the FCT for not fencing schools and
providing adequate security in the schools to wad
off hoodlums from using them as haven for their
criminal activities.
“We have received complaints of how teenage boys
and even adults use the primary school opposite
this community as a place of committing different
atrocities such as raping school girls. We have
called on the authorities to fence the school and put
security in place to prevent these dastardly acts but
nothing has been done about it. I believe that if the
school is fenced, crime around this area will reduce
drastically,” he added.
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