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Borno Lawmaker Almost To Death
MAIDUGURI—Member representing Kwaya Kusar Local Government
Area in Borno State House of Assembly, Mr. Ahmed Banga, escaped death,
yesterday, as a mob attacked him at one of the centres for the ongoing
continuous voters registration in the town.
It took the intervention
of security operatives to rescue the lawmaker from the mob, who were reportedly
armed with cutlasses, knife, sticks and other dangerous weapons.
The lawmaker was rushed to the nearby Gombe Federal Medical
Centre. Efforts to speak with him were unsuccessful, but the Caretaker Chairman
of the Council, Babangida Peta, confirmed the incident, stressing that he had
travelled from Kwaya Kusar to Gombe to sympathise with the lawmaker.
He said: “Youths beat up one of our stakeholders and
lawmaker, Saleh Banga. I was with him in the hospital at Gombe Federal Medical
Centre this morning (Tuesday).
“I am happy to inform you that he is responding to
treatment. I have constituted an investigative committee; anyone who is behind
this ugly incident will be investigated and, if found guilty, will surely face
the law.”
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