- AVM Maisaka was murdered in cold blood on Tuesday morning.
Details are beginning to emerge on how a retired Air Vice-Marshall was brutally assassinated in Kaduna on Tuesday morning
Air Vice-Marshall Mohammed Maisaka (retd), Proprietor and Managing Director of MSK Hospital Rigasa, was killed by gunmen who invaded his house at Makarfi Road, Rigasa Kaduna.
He was a one-time Director of the Nigerian Air force Medical Services and lecturer at ABU Teaching Hospital in Zaria.
A source close to the family, Abubakar Gwantu, said on Tuesday it was a case of premeditated assassination.
According to him, “The Armed men arrived AVM Maisaka’s house late yesterday (Monday) night and met him and his wife in the living room and shot him dead.
Gwantu said the gunmen first visited the boys quarters and picked his personal physiologist and they forced him to lead them into the main house.
“During the commotion, they instantly killed AVM Maisaka,” he said.
“It is certainly a case of a planned murder. Because the gunmen responded to his wife, that they didn’t have business with her and just casually left the house without picking a thing or threatening anyone further,” he said.
“AVM Maisaka has been paralyzed due to a medical condition for about three years and had been in rehabilitation until his death.
“Whoever is responsible for this must have held a long grudge against him, because Maisaka has long not been in circulation, but only went for treatment abroad, convalescing at home or at a local hospital for evaluation or emergency care.
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“In spite of opposition from his family, he built and was running a private hospital in the densely populated Rigasa Community, Kaduna due to his passion for social work. He refused in spite of his privileges and social status to live outside the community where he also built his retirement home.
“However, Allah knows best. May his Shahada (Martyrdom) grant him Jannah, Amin,” Gwantu prayed.
Meanwhile, the police in Kaduna State said they have commenced investigation into the circumstances surrounding AVM Maisaka’s murder.
The police called on members of the public to avail them with useful and timely information that could lead to the arrest of the killers.
Speaking to journalists, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, of Kaduna Command, ASP Muhammad Jalige, confirmed the killing, saying the deceased’s gateman was also injured in the incident.
He said: “The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday. AVM Maisaka’s gateman sustained injuries from the attack.
“When the information was received, the Commissioner of Police, Mudassiru Abdullah, directed the Divisional Police Officer and the Area Commander to go to the scene.
“The corpse has been evacuated to the hospital and the gateman has also been rushed to the hospital for treatment.
“Details of the incident would be made available soon,” he said.