Economic Adviser to late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, Alhaji Tanimu Yakubu, yesterday narrated his ordeal in the hands of his assailants in Kaduna.
He told Daily Trust that the assailants pounced on him as he was leaving a friend’s house on Galadima Street, Saturday evening.
Yakubu, who sustained injury on the head and also had a cut on the nose, demanded not to be recorded or photographed.
He recalled that when the assailants accosted him, one of them pressed a metal object against his body and that he was ordered to get into his (Yakubu’s) car.
He stated when the man noticed that he wasn’t cooperating with him but was moving in the opposite direction, he started hitting him with the metal object.
Yakubu stated he could not get help from people around as they fled.
The attackers, he added, left him when they noticed that blood was gushing from his head.
Yakubu, who was later rushed to the hospital, stated luckily for him, the injury on his head did not penetrate and he was treated and allowed to go home that day.
He described the incident as a consequence of lack of adequate arrangement to cushion the effects of a post crisis situation in the country.
Yakubu stated Nigeria needed to work out strategies that would check such occurrences in the present circumstance.
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