{"id":71957,"date":"2025-08-04T07:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71957"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:47:06","slug":"chief-imams-son-killed-in-bwari-land-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/04\/chief-imams-son-killed-in-bwari-land-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Imam&#8217;s Son Killed in Bwari Land Dispute\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tension has gripped the Kuchibuyi community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), following the death of Attahiru Abubakar, son of Chief Imam Abubakar Yaqub, who was allegedly shot by police officers during a land dispute on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Attahiru died instantly from a gunshot wound, while his elder brother, Abass, sustained serious injuries and is currently receiving treatment in a hospital. Their father, the Chief Imam, was also reportedly shot in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Police spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, confirmed that officers responded to what she described as a \u201ccivil unrest incident\u201d tied to a land disagreement.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that Divisional Police Officers from Byazin and Kubwa divisions were swiftly mobilised to restore calm, and that arrests were made while investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>Adeh denied that police were responsible for the violence, insisting that the dispute was purely communal and not instigated by the police.<\/p>\n<p>She also quoted FCT Commissioner of Police, Ajao Adewale, who condemned attacks on officers during the operation and warned that such acts would not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>However, residents have pushed back on the police account. Sanusi Abubakar, brother to the deceased, accused the police of siding with a private estate developer attempting to seize community land.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the developer initially came with soldiers and vigilantes to claim a portion of their land.<\/p>\n<p>He later returned with police officers, who opened fire on residents without provocation, killing Attahiru and injuring others.<\/p>\n<p>A resident who witnessed the incident, but requested anonymity, supported the claim, describing the police\u2019s action as \u201cindiscriminate shooting\u201d and accusing them of trying to cover up the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs from the scene show Attahiru\u2019s body with a gunshot wound to the chest.<\/p>\n<p>When asked on Sunday why her official statement did not mention the shootings or the fatality, Adeh declined to comment further, referring reporters to her earlier release.<\/p>\n<p>The incident adds to growing concerns over police brutality and excessive force in Nigeria, with Attahiru\u2019s death sparking calls for accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Tension has gripped the Kuchibuyi community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), following the death of Attahiru Abubakar, son of Chief Imam Abubakar Yaqub, who was allegedly shot by police officers during a land dispute on Saturday. Attahiru died instantly from a gunshot wound, while his elder brother, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71959,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71957\/revisions\/71959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}