Cover image: The Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai addressing the state
Unprecedented violence has taken over southern Kaduna follows moments of unrest that triled the recent massacre by rampaging Fulani herdsmen.
Consequently, an interim caretaker committee imposed a 24-hour curfew on Kafanchan town in southern Kaduna as protests took over the town following continued violence in the area.
The curfew is to forestall a breakdown of law and order in the area.
Hundreds of youths and women took to the streets to protest the persistent killing of residents by Fulani herdsmen.
Southern Kaduna had over time witnessed persistent killings with the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, recently revealing that he paid some Fulani herdsmen to forestall peace, a disclosure that resulted in heavy criticisms.
The curfew was imposed by the chairman of Jema’a local government area in state, Dr Bege Katuka.
Kafanchan, the commercial nerve-centre of southern Kaduna, is the headquarters of Jema’a local government area.
Report obtained by Elombah.com said that hundreds of youths, women and children took to the streets in the morning of Monday, 19 December, 2016.
They are protesting the continued attacks and killing of residents by suspected herdsmen even as the state government seemed helpless to the situation.
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