Gunmen on Saturday killed a Yobe-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Goni Aisami-Gashua at Jajimaji, the headquarters of the Karasuwa local government council of the state.
The cleric was said to be traveling from Gashua to Kano when he was followed on a bus by the attackers.
Some Gashua residents told Channels Television that the incident happened around 10 am at Jajimaji, a distance of fewer than 30 kilometers away from Gashua, the hometown of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.
A police spokesman in the state, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, in a telephone conversation with our correspondent said suspects wielding AK-47 rifles have been arrested and are in police custody.
Gashua has been one of the most peaceful communities in the state, even at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency.
Credit: Channelstv
