The Etum Numana, HRH. Dr. Gambo Makama and his pregnant wife were reportedly killed in Arak, a village in Sanga local government area of Kaduna state.
The attackers were said to have stormed his house in the early hours of the New Year.
Makama, who was one of the 2nd class traditional rulers in the Southern Senatorial district of Kaduna had travelled from his palace in Gwantu, to his village, Arak, to celebrate the New Year with his second wife when the incident happened.
A source in Arak said the gunmen who covered their faces with masks entered the house and began shooting, killing him and his wife while wounding his other son who was close by.
The wife was said to be pregnant.
The gun men after killing the chief and his wife also set the house and his car which was parked in the premises ablaze before taking to their heels.
