Dorcas, wife of the Chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bare Ward in Numan Local Government Area,
LGA, Adamawa State, Charles Christsanthus, who was beheaded by suspected Fulani
herdsmen, has narrated how her husband was murdered.
The suspects were also said to
have killed the PDP chieftain in front of his wife and their four-month-old
child and ran away with his head afterwards.
Christsanthus was killed in his
farm on August 29, 2018.
Speaking with Punch, the widow of
the slain politician also accused the police of shielding the killers of her
husband.
Dorcas who spoke at the State
Criminal Investigation Department where she had gone to lodge her complaint
yesterday, said that only justice for her slain husband would bring her peace.
The woman said she was holding
her four-month-old son and watched helplessly as the assailants hacked her
husband to death.
She said, “His attackers led by
our Fulani neighbours repeatedly stabbed him on the back and on his stomach
before beheading my husband in our farm and made away with his head.”
Dorcas said she could identify
her husband’s killers, insisting that the police were shielding them from
answering for their crime.
“The police under the guise of
allowing the suspects to seek medical attention are shielding those that killed
my husband. The only thing I want is justice,” she stated.
The Police Public Relations
officer in the state, Musa Habibu, insisted that some of the suspects were in
custody, adding that investigation into the incident was ongoing.
Asked about the suspects
allegedly receiving medical attention in a hospital, the spokesman simply
retorted, “A suspect has a right to medical attention if he is sick.”
He added, “Some arrests have been
made and those arrested are in police custody. I have had consultations with
the assistant commissioner of police handling the issue who said arrest had
been made.”
“But if they said one of those
arrested is receiving medical attention, a suspect has a right to medication if
he’s truly sick, it could be but I don’t have that information,” Habibu said.
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