Bandits Kill 6 UN Officials
Six persons including officials of the United Nations, the National Boundary Commission and Adamawa State Ministry of Land and Survey have been killed by bandits while on a delineation mission along Cameroon border.
Adamawa justice commissioner Silas Sanga confirmed the incident in a briefing with journalists in Yola.
Some of those killed were foreign nationals from Kenya and Cameroon while the Nigerians among them were indigenes of Adamawa, Jigawa and Kano, he said.
He said Cameroonian officials alerted the state government the deceased persons came under bandit attack after they visited Koncha village in Cameroon for demarcation and delineation exercise.
He identified a victim from Adamawa State as Zakari Bakare, the Assistant Surveyor General of the state.
Although he did not give details of the other slain officials, the Commissioner said corpses of the victims had been recovered and would soon be transported to their states and countries of origin.
The officials’ visit to the border was part of the border demarcation exercise between Nigeria and Cameroon following the International Court of Justice ruling that ceded Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon. (DAILY TRUST)
