Politics Nigeria's Former Ambassador Murdered in Abuja

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Immediate-past Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador S.S Yusuf, was murdered in the early hours of yesterday by yet-to-be identified assassins.

Oche Andrew told Sun newspaper that when he visited the scene of the incident in Zone 6 District of Abuja, the former ambassador was thrown out through the balcony of his apartment by the four assailants who broke into his house at about 2am on Monday early morning.

The eyewitness said he was thrown out from the third floor of the apartment. He added that as the time the unfortunate incident happened, the late diplomat was alone.

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“We woke up this morning only to find the body of the man lying lifeless. That was when I overhead neighborhoods saying that some people broke into his apartment midnight. They threw him out through the balcony and he died right there,” the eyewitness, Andrew told Daily Sun.

A relative of the deceased, Mrs Yemi Adebisi Kuti, also told Daily Sun that her brother was assassinated. She alleged that the assailants who carried out the killing did not tamper with anything in her brother’s apartment.

“My brother was born in 1957. He was the immediate-past ambassador to South Africa. All I can say is that he was murdered.
 
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