By Handel Patrick and Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporters)
The husband of the pregnant woman killed alongside her four children by unknown gunmen in Anambra state over the weekend, Jubril Ahmed has said that he is devastated by the unfortunate incident.
Jubril who works as a security guard in Anambra State told West African Pilot Correspondent that his wife was nine months pregnant and the family was expecting a new baby within the week when they were killed.
“They were coming back home after she visited her sister who was living in the nearby town of Isulo. She and the four children were all wearing hijabs; that was why the gunmen targeted them.
As I’m talking to you, I’m in the process of recovering their corpses. The police have given me some documents which I will use to collect the corpses. I’m in the mortuary now, they are demanding N30, 000 from me before they will release the corpses of my family.
My hope is to take the corpses to Ganye Local Government Area in Adamawa State and bury them because the cemetery the Arewa community is using here is already filled.” he said
The devastated husband gave the name of his late wife as Harira Jibril, 32, and those of the four children as Fatima, 9; Khadijah, 7; Hadiza, 5; and Zaituna, 2.
“I’m now left with nobody; they have wiped out my entire family. I am so worried and in trauma, there is a need for the government to do something,” Jibril said
Also speaking, the leader of the Hausa Community in Orumba South, Sarki Kabiru Bakari, said the plans to take the bodies of the deceased persons to Adamawa for burial had been cancelled because the corpses were not taken care of in the mortuary, and could not withstand the travel to the North.
“We have now decided to bury them in Awka Wednesday (today). The mortuary attendant did not treat the corpses, no preservation measure was done; hence we cannot travel with the corpses as they have already started decomposing
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