INEC Resident Commissioner & His Family Burnt To Death In Kano Home

The Kano state resident electoral commissioner, Alhaji Abdullahi Minkaila, was on Thursday, April 2, burnt to death along with his wife and two children in an inferno when his house was engulfed by fire. The late Minkaila and his family were hurried to the Murtala Mohammed specialist hospital where they died on Friday morning. Minkaila oversaw last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly polls in the state. The cause of the fire is yet to be determined at the time of this report.

A spokesperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mallam Garba, confirmed the incident. Magaji Majiya, an assistant superintendent of police, said the fire was supposed to have been caused by a spark in the family’s generator set at about 4a.m. Friday morning.

The police said they are waiting for the result of a postmortem on the remains of Mr. Abdullahi and his family, the spokesman for the Kano state office of INEC, Garba Muhammed, said the bodies of the victims were already being transported to his native Dutse, the Jigawa state capital, for burial, in line with Islamic tradition.