Identities Of Presidential Brigade Guards Killed By Terrorists Unveiled

The identities of presidential guards killed throughout a gun duel with terrorists in Abuja on Sunday night time have been revealed.

Naija Information remembers {that a} group of terrorists have been stated to have ambushed and injured some soldiers of the 7 Guards Battalion over the weekend.

The guards who’re on the mandate to guard President Muhammadu Buhari have been reportedly on routine patrol alongside Kubwa – Bwari street after they bumped into the ambush by the suspected terrorists within the nation’s capital metropolis.

The assault is coming barely twenty-four hours after the terrorists who killed and kidnapped some residents on a Kaduna-Abuja onboard practice months in the past, threatened to kidnap President Buhari and Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai.

An replace, nevertheless, on the Sunday night time assault claimed that some military officers misplaced their lives whereas confronting the terrorists in Abuja.

A captain and two troopers reportedly died within the gun trade that occurred within the Bwari space of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Sunday night time.

The Spokesman of the Guards Brigade, Captain Godfrey Anebi Abakpa who confirmed the identification of the slain officers to Day by day Belief, stated troops have been already combing the realm with the intention to be certain that terrorists weren’t hibernating there.

He revealed the identification of the slain officers as Lieutenant Ibrahim Suleiman and Captain Samuel Attah, who have been indigenes of Kogi State.

Suleiman was the son of Col Suleiman Ahmodu Babanawa (rtd). He hailed from Okpo in Olamaboro Native Authorities Space. Late Attah was from Ibaji native authorities of the state, Naija Information learnt.