Angry youths Tuesday shut Katsina – Kankara Highway and other
adjoining roads at Yantumaki in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State
and burnt the billboards of President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the town over the abduction of two persons in
the town.
The irate youths
disrupted vehicular movement on the busy highway to and fro the Katsina State
capital and grounded socio-economic activities in the town and parts of the
state for several hours to press home their demand for security agencies to
secure the release from bandits’ enclave a resident health worker in the town,
Mansir Yusuf and his daughter, Fatima, who were abducted by gunmen around 1 am
Tuesday.
The protest described by an eyewitness as a turning point in
the history of the area lamented that the abduction of Yusuf and his daughter
barely nine days after the traditional ruler of Yantumaki, Abubakar Atiku
Maidabino, 65, was shot dead by gunmen at his Yantumaki residence while his
security guard, who narrowly cheated death in the attack is still fighting for
his life at an undisclosed hospital.
“The youths took to the streets since morning following
another incidence of abductions too many in Yantumaki town and Danmusa Local
Government Area” said a resident of the town, who simply identified himself as
Yakubu told our correspondent. The spokesman of the Katsina State Police
Command, Gambo Isah, a Superintendent of Police, who confirmed the protest
assured that normalcy had since been restored by the police and other security
agencies.
The responses of the
Director-General on Media to Katsina State Governor, Abdu Labaran Malumfashi,
and the publicity secretary of the state chapter of APC, Abubakar Gambo
Danmusa, were still being awaited following several calls to their telephone
lines as at press time.
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