Unidentified motorcyclists have continued to wreak havoc in Bauchi metropolis as two more pedestrians were again stabbed on Thursday and Sunday night.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that motorcyclist had been terrorising residents of Fadaman Mada, Gida Dubu, Awalah and Madina Quarters areas of the metropolis in the past two months, stabbing no fewer than 10 pedestrians, of which two died.
The Sunday incident occurred around 8 p.m., adjacent the office of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Fadaman Mada, when the motorcyclist slowed down, stabbed one Isiaka Hamisu, and zoomed off.
Mr Hamisu, a resident of Madina Quarters, told NAN that he was trekking home when the incident occurred, saying he was taken to the hospital and treated of the wound inflicted on him.
The Thursday incident also took place in Fadaman Mada area at about 7.30 p.m., when another pedestrian, Husaini Umar, was stabbed in the same manner.
“Initially, the pain was not much but after some hours, it became severe that I had to be rushed to the hospital for a second time,” Mr Umar told NAN.
NAN gathered that in all cases recorded, the mode of action was same – a motorcyclist slows down, stabs a person trekking, and zooms off.
“Most worrisome is that the motive for this rampant stabbing of innocent pedestrians is not clear.
“Unlike the one we are used to, whereby youth on drug stab to dispossess people of their valuables, nothing is taken away from the victims in this case,” a cleric in Bauchi, Buhari Dahiru, told NAN.

Mr Dahiru had on May 2, witnessed the stabbing of a woman very close to his mosque in Fadaman Mada area.