An eyewitness, Oche Andrew told Daily Sun at the scene of the incident in Zone 6 District of Abuja, that the former ambassador was thrown out through the balcony of his apartment by four assailants who broke into his house at about 2am on Monday night.
Andrew said Yusuf was thrown out from the third floor of the apartment and added that at the time the unfortunate incident happened, the late diplomat was alone.
“We woke up this morning only to find the body of the man lying lifeless.
“That was when I overhead neighborhoods saying that some people broke into his apartment at midnight. They threw him out through the balcony and he died right there,” Andrew said.
A relative of the deceased, Mrs Yemi Adebisi Kuti said the assailants did not tamper with anything in her brother’s apartment.
“They did not even tamper with the smallest item in the house. They just came and carried out their assignment,” she said.
Born in 1957, the late Ambassador Yusuf hailed from Niger State.
Described as a thoroughbred diplomat, he distinguished himself during the attacks on Nigerians by South Africans in 2014.
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