Refuse fewer than 40 fishermen in Yauri Native Executive Segment of Kebbi Condition, on Monday, killed and butchered a hippopotamus from the Yauri River next it was once mentioned to have killed two individuals of the society.
The Information Company of Nigeria learnt that the hippopotamus killed one Usman Maigadi, a cover on the Orchard Farm owned by way of the Emir of Yauri, Muhammad Zayyanu-Abdullahi, on September 22.
The Chairman of Yauri LGA, Abubakar Shu’aibu, showed the incident to NAN including that the animal was once killed by way of the fishermen, armed with bows and arrows, next they won a directive from the emir.
Shu’aibu mentioned, “If that you must recall, the hippo killed Yauri Emir’s cover and some other farmer in September. We will’t stock an animal this is killing society in any case, and all of the society it killed weren’t next the animal. They have been doing their very own fishing industry.
“Nearest they killed it, they transported it on a fat canoe from the river to the palace of the District Head of Gungu, Alhaji Kasimu Aliyu, amidst applause by way of a population of society.
“The brave fishermen subsequently butchered the animal into pieces and shared the meat with the people.”
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