Abuja: Unidentified gunmen Tuesday killed top Nigerian officials including the justice commissioner for a Nigerian state and an ex-prisons chief in different incidents across the country.
According to media reports, in Borno state, gunmen stormed the justice commissioner’s home late Monday in the town of Bama in the country’s northeast, a stronghold of Boko Haram, a militant group trying to implement strict Sharia law.
“We received the report of the death of the commissioner of justice, Zannah Malam Gana,” a government official said on condition of anonymity. “He was shot dead by some gunmen in his house around 8:45 pm last night.”
In the case of the former national prisons chief, a senior police officer said he was shot dead in Bauchi state in Nigeria’s north as he was leaving a mosque near his house following evening prayers.
“The former comptroller-general of prisons is dead,” the senior police officer said of Ibrahim Jarma. “He died from the wounds he sustained in the attack last night.”
It was not immediately clear who was behind the killings, but they occurred after security forces on Monday shot dead two suspected high-ranking members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.
Boko Haram has been blamed for more than 1,400 deaths since 2010 in northern and central Nigeria as part of its insurgency.
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