Bandits Kill Abducted Sokoto Monarch

Sokoto monarch, Isa Mohammed Bawa, who was kidnapped in July along the Sokoto-Sabon Birni Road of Sokoto State has been killed by the terrorists holding him.

OSUN DEFENDER reports that the monarch recently appealed to the government for help in a viral video.

The 74-year-old monarch, who had worked for the government for nearly 45 years as a traditional ruler, according to BBC Hausa, was killed on Tuesday, three days after the video of him calling the government to intervene went viral.

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“The news I got is that the bandits shot him on Tuesday afternoon, and those who went to discuss the payment of the ransom saw the king’s body lying there,” Shuaibu Gwanda Gobir, the mayor of Gobir, told BBC Hausa on Wednesday.

The monarch’s abductors had requested a N1 billion ransom payment to secure the release of the monarch and others who were being held captive.

When his relatives could not provide the ransom at the deadline given by the abductors, the terrorists proceeded to make a video of the monarch in captivity and post it on social media.

The monarch had in the video, said, “I want to inform my relatives, friends, well-wishers and the government that today, Wednesday, is the deadline.

“If they really want to help me, they should help me, please. These people are tired of us and have exhausted their options, but the government did not intervene. I pleaded with the government to intervene, but they didn’t.”