By MUHAMMAD BELLO,
Assistant Editor, Sunday Triumph

This time around, the victim is an airport security operative at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA).

The official, Abubakar Tahir who resides in Gwammaja Housing Estate in Kano metropolis was stabbed to death by unknown assailants who attacked him in front of his neighbour’s house.

An eyewitness told Daily Triumph that he was coming back from the roadside where he went to buy tea. ‘’It was about 11 p.m in the night. He was holding a thermo flask in his hand. Shortly after, he left us we heard shouts of thief, thief twice, then there was silence,’’ the eyewitness said.

A short while after he was found in a pool of his own blood in front of his house where he fell dead.
Our correspondent gathered from a family source that his wife who had earlier reacted to the alarm she raised by locking the door of their house was shocked to learn that the victim was her husband.

It was also gathered that one of the attackers who was in a haste to flee the scene left behind his cap and the knife he used to attack him. ‘’We also gathered that one of the attackers who was in a haste to flee the scene left behind his cap and the knife he used to attack him. ‘’We also extracted the victim’s cellular phone and scrolled to the last call he made. We called the number but there was no answer,’’ said the family source.

There is an unsubstantiated allegation that Tahir have knowledge of the trafficking of a substance believed to be hard drugs through his duty post.

It was learnt that he refused to collect a bribe of N5 million offered him by a faceless baron two months ago when the deal was first busted.

Earlier information we got indicate that a name sake of the victim, an SSS official, was the one killed was clarified by the state director as in correct.

According to him, their official bearing the same name was involved in an accident three weeks ago.
He said SSS operatives attached to airports have nothing to do with drug trafficking cases. ‘’Our operatives in any airport are only concerned with traffic control,’’ he explained.

When the police spokesperson in Kano, Superintendent of Police, Baba Muhammad was contacted, he said the command was not aware of the murder. He advised that he should be contacted today.