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Original Post Date: 2011-07-25 Time: 09:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Osa Okhomina, Samuel Aruwan, And Ruth Tena Natsa
However, 15 of the raiders were arrested by the villagers after several hours of scuffle.
A source also confided in our correspondent that some youths in the village and the hoodlums were wounded in the scuffle and were taken to Gwong Primary Health Centre for first-aid treatment. The 15 hoodlums arrested by the villagers were handed over to soldiers.
The soldiers reportedly took them to Kafanchan zonal police headquarters for further investigation.
The hoodlums, who came in three batches at about 1.00am, attacked the villages, Angwan Yaro and Angwan Yuli. But the communities were said to have been alerted to their coming, following a tip-off that strange movements had been noticed within and around bush paths in the area, which is under Kussom District, Gwong chiefdom of Jema’a local government area of Kaduna State.
Following the development, the communities did not hold church services and early Muslim prayers yesterday for the fear of the unknown, following the tension created by the invaders.
An eyewitness and resident of one of the villages, Saidu Mallam, told LEADERSHIP that they got advance information and decided to take prompt action. He said: “We got urgent information that strange gunmen have been noticed approaching our area, and we became worried and woke all of our people only to see people in batches holding weapons. The first one numbered almost 200, and the second and the third numbered almost 300. The first and the second group did not start the attacks until the last group arrived, then they started attacking our people and injuring them.
“They had guns, swords and other local weapons aside traditional wristbands and some holding petrol in cans. We were outnumbered and we had no arms. However, we offered resistance and they fled. We captured 15 of them. They have been handed over to soldiers who were drafted in to save us. The soldiers took them away.”
On the allegation that the said gunmen were Nigeriens, he said: “They are strange people that you can identify as Nigeriens, and even their accent can convince you that they are not Nigerians. We have never experienced this kind of situation, as the post-election violence did not happen here.
“There was no church service and early Muslim prayers today (Sunday). We are still afraid because some of the hoodlums escaped into the bush and we don’t know what may happen in the night, though soldiers are here now”.
Some of those injured have been hospitalised at the General Hospital, Kafanchan. Their names were given as Samuel Hassan, Maiwada Buki and Nyako Makeri.
LEADERSHIP could not get the spokesperson of the Kaduna State police command, DSP Aminu Lawan, for confirmation.
But the special adviser on media and public affairs to Governor Patrick Yakowa, Mr. Reuben Buhari, stated that they were yet to receive official report on the situation, saying that he could not comment yet.
He said: “You should cross check from the police, but the only thing I will say is nothing but reiterate the governor’s appeal for peace and mutual understanding. We have to live together devoid of our differences so that we can collectively build our state and nation together, we must respect one another and live together in peace and harmony.”
A security man in Kafanchan confirmed the development to LEADERSHIP, adding that the suspects were being held at the Police Area Command, Kafanchan.
He added that thorough investigation had begun into the matter while soldiers and other security agencies were patrolling the area.
LEADERSHIP also monitored travelling across the routes to the southern parts and discovered that security checks had been intensified.
Meanwhile, 15 suspected members of the Boko Haram sect were yesterday arrested after a scuffle between them and youths of the community, while allegedly trying to sneak into Fadan Kagoma.
According to sources, members of the sect were arrested in groups between the villages of Kussom and Keiya in the morning, when youths of the community captured them while they were trying to sneak into the village.
The source further said that “though there were over a hundred members of the sect caught, only 15 were caught carrying cutlasses and other small weapons”.
In another development gunmen at the weekend in Bayelsa State killed five persons suspected to be ex-militant youths and leaders over alleged diversion of the monthly stipends paid by the federal government through the Amnesty Committee.
The killing of the five ex-militants in Bayelsa is coming a few months after some high-profile killings caused panic among ex-militant leaders and led to an increased scrambling for armed police orderlies, bullet-proof vests and movement of licensed arms and ammunition.
LEADERSHIP investigations showed that since the post-amnesty era in the Niger Delta, three ex-militant leaders had been killed in Bayelsa in mysterious circumstances, one each in Rivers and Ondo states.
The five persons were shot dead at various locations across the state. It started with the killing of two ex-militant leaders in a restaurant in Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State.
According to security sources, one of the ex-militant leaders known as ‘Commander Akina’ was in the company of a fellow ex-militant whose identity was not immediately known when somebody just entered into the restaurant and opened fire killing two of them on the spot.
The killings were said to be connected to the disagreement on the monthly amnesty allowances paid through the various leaders by the federal government Amnesty Committee.
The shooting, which did not last more than two minutes, forced people to scamper for safety with some residents immediately calling the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) and the divisional police officer (DPO). Operation Famou Tangbei, was immediately contacted. The corpses were handed over to it before they were deposited at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) morgue.
Contacted on the development, the police public relations officer (PPRO), Eguaveon Emoakpe, confirmed three deaths, saying that the command was on top of the situation.
According to him no arrests had been made but investigations had commenced fully into the incidents.
Original date published: 25 July 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201107251011.html?viewall=1