By Kabir Dankatsina, Birnin Kebbi
No fewer than forty angry fishermen with bores and arrows have killed the killer HIppopotamus in Yauri River under Yauri local government area of Kebbi State.
They were ordered by Governor Nasir Idris Kauran Gwandu of Kebbi State through the emir of Yauri, Zayyanu Abdullahi to search her inside the river and kill her after it recently killed the emir’s orchard guard man.
While confirming the development to Journalists, Chairman of Yauri local government, Hon Abubakar Shu’aibu Yauri (Abu Manaja) disclosed that the fishermen after securing order from the governor through the emir of Yauri quickly entered the river on their canoes where the Killer HIppopotamus lived and Nursing with their bores and arrows shooting from all angles and eventually killed her inside the river.
He said ” After they killed her, they took her inside a big canoe from the river to the Palace of District Head of Gungu, Kasimu Aliyu amidst thousands of people and slaughtered it into pieces and shared the meat to people.”