Farmer murdered in FCT community

A resident of Gada-Biyu, Abdullahi Yahaya, said the incident happened on Friday evening when the Adamu was returning from his farm and was attacked with a machete.

Farmer murdered in FCT community
Farmer murdered in FCT community

A 32-year-old farmer, Yusufa Adamu, has been hacked to death by at Gada-Biyu village in Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

A resident of Gada-Biyu, Abdullahi Yahaya, said the incident happened on Friday evening when the Adamu was returning from his farm and was attacked with a machete.

According to him, the family of the deceased raised alarm after he was not seen at home on Friday and that members of the vigilante mobilised to the farm on Sunday where they discovered the decomposing body of the farmer with machete cuts.

The spokesperson of the FCT Police Command, ASP Maryam Yusuf, was yet to reply to a text message sent to her phone to confirm the incident.