By Luka Binniyat & Mayen Etim

KADUNA—Malali, a  confluence of low, medium and high income quarters of Kaduna town is under siege by armed gangsters, who unleashed terror on the area using daggers.

Kaduna State Police Command spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Zubairu, weekend, confirmed the murder of a 22-year-old man, Aliyu Yusuf, by one of such gangs.

Mother of the victim, Hajiya Maryam Aliyu, in Shagari Close, Badarawa area, said: “I was at home when somebody came to our gate and one of my sons went out to see who it was, only for the visitor, possibly a driver too, to hand over to him the corpse of his younger brother, saying he only assisted because he knew my son.

“In the ensuing confusion, the man who brought his body immediately ran away.

“My son, who was stabbed on the neck and abdomen, was a driver and a nice boy.”

Last week, a carpenter, simply known as Sunday, who was stabbed in the stomach by some hoodlums, died of the injury.

At Angur Maisamari, still part of Malali, one Abdullahi was also stabbed, but survived.

Vanguard gathered that there are usually, on the average, five cases of hoodlums stabbing themselves or descending on a target with daggers, but most of the cases are never reported to the police by victims due to fear of the thugs.