Kebbi senator confirms son’s murder by suspected bandits
Senator representing Kebbi South at the National Assembly, Bala Ibn Na’Allah has expressed the hope that the death of his son would play a major role in finding solutions to Nigeria’s problems.
Reacting to the death of his son, a pilot Abdulkarim Na’Allah, Monday, the senator who is a member of the Senate Committee on Aviation, also dismissed claims that those who murdered his son were armed with guns.
This is just as the senator confirmed that his son’s assailants gained access through the roof and strangled him.
Abdulkarim Na’Allah was reported to have met his untimely death at the hands of suspected assailants, Sunday.
The aircraft pilot was allegedly murdered in his home at Malali GRA in Kaduna Metropolis by suspected bandits who reportedly gained entry into his residence through the ceiling.
Senator Na’Allah said that he would love his son in death as he was a wonderful person in his life.
Senator Na’Allah also said the life of his late son was not better than that of any of any other Nigerian noting that the family has left everything to Almighty Allah.
The Kebbi South senator thanked the Nigerian Police and Kaduna government for their intervention and prayed God grants his son eternal rest.
Kaduna State Government described Na’Allah’s death as “appearing to be a case of culpable homicide.”
Reacting to the death of the pilot, a former Deputy General Secretary of the Airline Operators of Nigeria, (AON) Alhaji Mohammed Tukur has condemned the brutal murder of Abdulkkarim N’Allah, the son of Senator Bala N’Allah of Kebbi State last Sunday.
Tukur who condoned with the family of the deceased and prayed for the internal repose of the deceased’s soul, described the death of the young pilot as a big blow to the aviation industry also urged security agencies to ensure that the perpetrators are apprehended to answer for their heinous crime.
He noted that the deceased possessed an exceptional skills stressing that it was gravelly regrettable that the industry had to lose such a promising professional at a time aviation was experiencing high dearth of skilled manpower.
Tukur however said the mode with which the killing was carried out suggested assassination and called on the security agencies to widen their dragnets to fish out the perpetrators.
He regretted the increasing criminality in the country and appealed to the security agencies to do more to secure lives and properties