Unknown gunmen have killed Senior Special Assistant to Benue Governor Samuel Ortom on Security, AIG Christopher Dega (Rtd) in Jos, Plateau State Capital.
Dega was said to have been shot in the chest several times by the gunmen on Tuesday, June 1.
AIG Dega had a brilliant career in the Nigerian Police Force and was twice Commissioner of Police in Borno and Edo States.
He hailed from Katsina-Ala local government area in Benue State.
Meanwhile, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Terver Akase, confirmed the incident.
Nigeria’s security forces are grappling with violent separatist agitations in the southeast, kidnapping for ransom and banditry in the northwest and north central regions, piracy in the south-south, terrorism in the northeast and killings across the country.
Dega’s murder arrives just days after a former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, was shot dead in Imo by hoodlums.
Governor Ortom once narrated how he escaped being killed by gunmen on his farm parch.
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