Suspected underworld daredevils attacked the famed Abdullahi Supermarket in One Man Village, near Mararaba in Nasarawa State, on Tuesday evening, murdering four people, including a staff member of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
Daniel Adefemi Okunade, identified by his identity card as CBN personnel, was shot in the head and died instantly.
Three other people who were brutally slain with him could not be identified as of the time of this article.
According to eyewitnesses, the heist lasted less than two minutes, during which the CBN staff, who is also the choir master of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in One Man Village, was gunned down.
He was alleged to have stopped at the Supermarket to buy bread for his family when the robbers broke into the always crowded supermarket and killed four customers.
The men of the underworld did not touch his Toyota Venza car parked outside the supermarket.
The late Okunade was claimed to be on his way home from work when he was killed by the accused robbers.
The mood in the vicinity remained tense at the time of this report, as customers continued to flock into the Supermarket to identify the robbery victims.
Meanwhile, officers from the New Nyayan Divisional Police Station have transferred the robbery victims’ bodies to the Mararaba Medical Center mortuary in Mararaba.
The authorities have not yet released any details on the event.
Hundreds of sympathizers, including church members, have flocked to the late CBN staff’s home to express their condolences to his family.