A daughter of the lawmaker representing Ngala Constituency in the Borno State House of Assembly, Hon Bukar Abacha, has been reportedly murdered.
According to a Counter Insurgency Expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, the lady was strangled to death at the Gidan Dembe community in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.
The husband of the victim, who took the corpse to the police station, was quoted to have said he found her lifeless body in his house with her hand and legs tied behind her back while her two-year-old child was crying.
The Gwange Police Division has evacuated the corpse to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for autopsy and investigation.
The incident, which caused tension and pandemonium in the area, attracted a large crowd of residents who thronged the scene to catch a glimpse of the sad incident.