Govs Dickson, El-Rufai impose curfew on communities

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has imposed a curfew in Twon-Brass, Brass Local Government after a week-long violence in the area that claimed the lives of no less than three persons.

This was even as the state government has vowed to ensure that the hoodlums responsible for the killings and injuring of many in the area are prosecuted.

Similarly, Kaduna State Government also on Friday imposed a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew on Kwaru and Ungwan Yero communities in the Kaduna North Local Government Area of the state.

In Twin-Brass, violence unleashed by hoodlums and thugs said to be loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), had erupted on Wednesday August 15 and lasted till Wednesday August 22, when the Nigeria Police eventually succeeded in bringing the situation under control.

The state Deputy Governor Rear Admiral John Jonah (retd.), while vowing that the perpetrators must be prosecuted during a news conference at Government House, Yenagoa, insisted that the nine-hour curfew (9pm to 6am) imposed in the area remained in force.

“It has come to the knowledge of the state government that on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, some hoodlums at Ada-Ama, Twon-Brass in Brass LGA of the state attacked peace loving members of Twon-Brass community with knives, guns and other dangerous weapons and injuring several persons and destroying property valued several millions of naira.

“The said persons kept the entire Twon-Brass community under siege for several days and perpetrated mindless violence in the community. Security personnel eventually arrested some of the hoodlums with guns and other dangerous weapons along with very substantial sums of money.

“Men of the Nigeria Police only succeeded in bringing the situation under control on Wednesday, August 22, 2018.

“The state government is greatly dismayed that Twon-Brass, which is a major oil exporting terminal in the country is recently being used by non-state actors as a hub of criminal activities with its attendant adverse effect on the economy of not only the state, but of the entire country.

“The state government has consequently imposed curfew in Twon-Brass from 9pm to 6am. All residents of the area are expected to comply with the curfew, which will be lifted as soon as normalcy is restored,” he said.

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The Kaduna government’s action came following the killing of two youths in the communal clashes that took place in the two communities.

Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, who disclosed this in a statement said that more security agents had been deployed to the area to maintain law and order.

He therefore called on the residents of the communities to adhere strictly to the curfew.

 

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