The Chairman, Committee on Local Governments and Rural Development, Kaduna State House of Assembly, Rilwanu Aminu Gadagau, is dead. He was reportedly killed by bandits.
Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Yusuf Ibrahim Zailani, said the lawmaker was killed in a suspected attack by bandits along Kaduna-Zaria road on Monday and his corpse was “discovered in a morgue on Wednesday.”
Zailani, in a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Ibrahim Dahiru, described the death of Gadagau as devastating.
“This is tragic and painful. We are in deep grief over this sad incident….
Our prayers at this time goes to his immediate family. Honourable Gadagau was a young and dynamic lawmaker, who had a passion for his constituency, state and Nigeria….
We will miss his vibrant contributions.
“Our hearts also go out to those kidnapped in the same operation, believing that they would be rescued by security operatives as soon as possible,” he said.