The Kano State Police
Command, has confirmed the killing of a prominent Kano State based
cleric, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Rilwan Dutse,
said three gunmen had been lurking in a car parked outside the deceased’s house
for about 30 minutes, awaiting his return from the mosque before killing him.
Mallam Shu’aibu was shot in the Gwammaja area of Kano metropolis; the incident occured in front of his residence located behind Federal Secretariat complex at some minutes past 8pm, local residents have said.
Eyewitnesses said about four gunmen inside a car and others on motorbikes, accosted the deceased who was seated outside with his students, before shooting him to death. The assailants ordered the students to leave the spot, after which they fired several shots at the scholar.
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