The Adamawa State Police Command has appealed for information that could lead to the arrest of the persons who assaulted a journalist, Maxwell Nashion.
Nashion died on Wednesday as a result of the assault.
Nashion, a staff of Radio Nigeria’s Fombina FM in Yola, was found unconscious on Wednesday morning with his hands and feet tied together and evidence suggesting he had been beaten up and inflicted with machete cuts by his assailants.
He was discovered by women going to farm in an isolated place close to the Fombina FM complex after he had reportedly been dragged from his house about 2 a.m on Wednesday.
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He later died at a hospital in nearby Jimeta, Yola, where he was rushed to.
The Public Relations Officer, Adamawa Command, DSP Suleman Nguroje, said Thursday that the Commissioner of Police, Audu Madaki, had directed the homicide unit of the command to fish out the killers without delay.
He said a 24-hour surveillance had been mounted around the area of the crime by the Command with a view to finding the assailants.
Though the Police Command is yet to comment on the motive behind the attack, sources close to the late journalist suggested it might be connected to a stolen phone which he had been striving to track.
A source said he hurriedly wrote a text to a friend, giving him instruction on how to retrieve the pack of the said phone from around his house, even as his assailants stood outside his house threatening him to come out.
