After naked women protest, El-Rufai imposes 24-hour curfew on 3 LGAs

Barely 24 hours after naked women reportedly protested incessant killings in Southern Kaduna and destroyed Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s cars, the governor has imposed a 24-hour curfew on three local government areas of the state.

Angry women said to hail from Kafanchan area of the state, were on Tuesday seen half naked protesting against the unending brutal killings by suspected herdsmen in the Southern part of the state, which have repeatedly been attacked in the last six months.

The women, who were mostly elderly had marched to the government house and requested they must be allowed to see the state governor. After a meeting with the governor, they were said to have destroyed some of the cars in El-Rufai garage before leaving.

Subsequently, on Wednesday, the Kaduna State government imposed a 24-hour curfew on three local government areas claiming the action was to protect lives and properties of the people.

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A statement by Mr Samuel Aruwan, Special Assistant to Gov. El-Rufai on Media and Publicity in Kaduna named the affected areas as Zangon-Kataf, Kaura and Jema’a. The statement added that there was ban on processions and unlawful assembly in any part of the state.

The council meeting where the decision was taken according to the statement was chaired by Governor El-Rufai with his Deputy, Barnabas Bala. In attendance were, the State Commissioner of Police, Agyole Abeh and Director of DSS, Mohammed Wakili among others.

Only recently, El-Rufai claimed that foreign Fulani herdsmen were responsible for the incessant attacks and killings in southern Kaduna.

While he claimed that the attacks were as a result of revenge for the killings of the foreign herdsmen during 2011 general elections in Nigeria, he however said he had pacified the aggrieved foreigners including settling some of them with money.

 

 

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