Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect have shot and killed Abba Kyari, a nephew of Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima.
Kyari was killed after he was said to have grabbed a Boko Haram member and forced him to abandon his gun during an attack launched by the sect last week Tuesday in Karari area located around Maiduguri Old Prison.
The governor’s relative, who disappeared since the attacks, was confirmed dead a few days ago by the police authorities in the state capital, Maiduguri.
A source at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, confirmed to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY that the nephew of the governor was among the victims of the Boko Haram attacks of last Tuesday.?
The Boko Haram attack came just as Kano State was on Friday thrown into confusion following serial attacks by the sect on several security agencies as well as some para-military organs.
According to accounts by some eyewitnesses, Kyari, a 40-year-old, accountant with the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, felt very bitter when a young Boko Haram member stormed Karari? area and killed one man and was brandishing his gun as he walked away with everyone running away.
Kyari was said to have run after the? killer and grabbed him from behind forcing him to abandon his gun and fled away. Kyari's intervention, it was believed, prevented a bomb detonation by the young sect member.
Angered by his courage, some gunmen believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect trailed Kyari in the morning of the next day, Wednesday, at Kukawa Road in Kofa Biyu Area of Maiduguri while he (Kyari) was on his way to work and shot him at close range, which led to his untimely death.