The Police in Adamawa State have confirmed that four people were bathed with acid by hoodlums in Yola.
DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, Spokesman of the Command, confirmed the development to journalists in Yola, on Tuesday.
According to Nguroje, the attack was reported at the Jimeta Police Division on January 6, by one Fawas Mohammed, and the case was filed for investigation.
“The DPO in charge of Jimeta Police Division has briefed the State Command that one Fawas Mohammed has reported a case of acid attack on him and three others.
“The Command, after receiving the complaint, immediately gave directive for investigation,” Nguroje said.
Narrating his ordeal to newsmen, Fawas Mohammed, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in the state, alleged that the attack had political undertone.
“After attacking us with acid in late December, 2021, and again, on Friday, January 6, at about 6:30pm, hoodlums invaded my house at Gimba Street, Jimeta in Yola North Local Government Area.
“The hoodlums beat me to comma and one of them openly warned me to stop granting interview in radio and criticising the government,” Mohammed alleged.
He accused one Alhaji Abubakar Sarki, a Yola North party chieftain, of allegedly masterminding the two attacks on him.
He said that one of the victims of the acid attack was critically injured and receiving treatment at the specialist Hospital, Yola.
Reacting to the allegation, Sarki said that the state Command of Department of State Service had invited him on the matter.
He, however, denied the allegation, describing it as cheap blackmail, and stating that “I was invited by the DSS in the state over the matter where I categorically told them that I don’t know anything about the alleged attacks.”
(NAN).
