Casualties figure,
according to eye witnesses, now stands at six
Fight over a woman between two neighbouring communities of
Badarawa Kwaru and Unguwar Yero in Kaduna North local government area of Kaduna
State has turned bloody. Read more at:
DAILY POST gathered that not fewer than six persons have lost
their lives since the eruption of fight on Sunday night, while several others
have sustained various degree of injuries.
As at the time of filing this report Wednesday afternoon, there
is heavy presence of Police and soldiers as residents remain indoor. Several
gunshots were fired into the air at interval.
Eye witnesses accounts said the fight started between two men on
Sunday night over a woman. Emmanuel Kaja said that a man from Kwaru community
came on motorbike to Unguwar Yero to see his alleged concubine who incidentally
is a wife of a man in Unguwar Yero.
According to him, “The woman was in relationship with the man
from Kwaru when she was a girl and used to give her money when they were
dating. The lady in question married another person. But after their marriage,
the lady and her former boyfriend were still going out.
“On that Sunday evening, the Kwaru man came as usual to look for
his concubine. They met as usual, but the husband who was already suspecting
his wife trailed her to where they were standing. So, when he accosted them,
the Kwaru man kicked his bike and stabbed the man from Kwaru in the stomach.
“The man later died before he could be rushed to the hospital.
But, what got people of the area angry is that, the Governor later came begging
the people to be patient without taking action to bring the culprit to book.
“That was why Unguwar Yero people also started attacking people
suspected to be Hausa-Muslim,” he said.
Another eye witness also said that governor Nasir El-Rufai who
was at Unguwar Yero on Sunday night to broker peace was stoned by the angry
youths.
He said, “When the governor arrived the area, the angry youths
didn’t even allow him to speak, they just started chanting ‘bama so’, meaning,
‘we don’t want’.
Meanwhile, after the Governor’s visit, the crisis started taking
religious and ethnic dimensions since Monday, as groups from the neighboring
Kwaru and Unguwar Yero resulted to attacking people identified as members of
the opposite ethnic or religious group.
As at Wednesday morning, tension had risen again, as youths
suspected to be of Kwaru extraction stormed Ghana Road area of Malali and
Unguwar Yero, attacking two traders, one of whom is feared dead.
Casualties figure, according to eye witnesses, now stands at
six. Kaduna State Police Public Relations Officer, Zubairu Abubakar, did not
take calls to his phone.
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