Radio Nigeria Staff Killed in Yola

Radio Nigeria Staff Killed in Yola:

Maxwell Nashan, a Yola-based broadcaster, has died in the hands of unknown gunmen in the early morning of 15th of January, 2020.

Maxwell, who was with Fombina FM,
an arm of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, was found on Wednesday morning in a bush in the outskirts of Vunokilan, a community not far from the Fombina FM office complex in Girei Local
Government Area of the State.

A source disclosed that women who
are mainly farmers found him tied down with his mouth sealed after he sustained
serious beating, with machet cuts in his body.

A colleague of his who spoke in
confidence on Wednesday afternoon, said
Maxwell “was suspected to have been
assaulted by unknown assailants who took
him out from his house, tied him up,
cut him with machetes and dumped
him behind Fombina, his office, and
was found by some women going to
the farm this morning.”

Another colleague of the late Maxwell,
Anthony Shekara, said Maxwell was
most probably dragged from his house
in the middle of the night after he was
beaten and machetted, and then left dead, as there were traces of blood around his house.

Shekara added that "the women
alerted other passers-by who took him
to hospital." According to Shekara, Maxwell died shortly after reaching the German
Hospital, an adjunct of the Adamawa
State Specialist Hospital located in
Jimeta, Yola.

He said a card found on him indicated
that he worked at the Fombina FM,
which eased the identification by
hospital officials.