Abuja Natives Condemn Reports On Activist’s Death

The archetypal inhabitants of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) person condemned online media reports detailing the circumstances of autochthonal rights activistic Yunusa Ahmadu Yusuf’s death.

They demanded respect for his bequest and absorption connected his lifelong advocacy.

The archetypal reports, which cited unnamed constabulary sources, claimed the 39-year-old elder peculiar adjunct connected Community Development to the AMAC chairman, popularly known arsenic Buhun Barkonun, died during a “sex romp” successful a Karu-Jikwoyi edifice connected September 8.

This communicative has been met with fury from assemblage elders, associates and household members, who argued that it was a deliberate effort to trim the influential figure’s beingness to salacious gossip.

The coordinator of the FCT Senior Citizens Forum, Elder Danjuma Tanko Dara, successful a property briefing yesterday aft the burial of the activist, voiced the community’s corporate outrage successful an impassioned address.

“This is simply a quality assassination of the highest order, a deliberate effort to ungraded the sanction of a antheral who tin nary longer support himself.

“The dormant cannot speak. They cannot rebut lies oregon close narratives. To tarnish Yunusa’s representation successful this mode is not conscionable journalism astatine its worst; it is simply a profound misdeed against our civilization and the representation of a warrior,” helium said.

Dara forcefully shifted the absorption from the edifice country backmost to the communities wherever Yusuf built his estimation arsenic a tireless advocate.

“Let america talk of the antheral we knew. Let america talk of Buhun Barkonun, the antheral who fought tirelessly for the involvement of the archetypal inhabitants of Abuja.

“He was our dependable successful the corridors of power, a champion for our onshore rights, our culture, and our rightful spot successful this city. We are arrogant of him, adjacent aft death, and we volition not let this bequest to beryllium erased by vile gossip,” helium said.

Yusuf was a analyzable fig who gained nationalist notoriety arsenic a vocal professional of the 2020 #EndSARS protests wrong the FCT, a stance his supporters accidental was rooted successful his circumstantial advocacy for his community.

Dara further issued a plea for dignity, “He was a antheral of conviction. To retrieve him lone for the mode helium died is an insult to each task helium championed. Let the constabulary bash their job, but fto the media and the nationalist bash theirs with a consciousness of humanity and respect.”