Two officials of the Nigeria Customs Service have met their death at the hands of suspected bandits in Kebbi State.
The officers, Kabiru Shehu and Abdullahi Muhammad died in the line of duty.
They and their colleagues were conducting a-stop-and-search exercise when the bandits attacked them on Thursday.
The Ag. Public Relations Officer of the Kebbi Area Command of Customs, Mubarak Mustapha, said of the incident in a statement he released on Friday saying, “On Thursday, August 24, 2023, around 0128hrs, a team of Kebbi Area Command officers and men of the Nigeria Customs, while on a stop-and-search operation based on credible information along Bunza-Dakingari-Koko Road, were engaged with heavy gunfire by suspected bandits in an ash-coloured Toyota Corolla vehicle.
“In the melee that ensued, two personnel of the command, Alhaji Kabiru Shehu, an Inspector of Customs, and Abdullahi Muhammad, a Customs Assistant II, paid the supreme price. The officers have since been laid to rest according to Islamic rites.”
