Hundreds Of Women Protest Naked In Kafanchan, Soldiers Kill One
Governor Nasir el-Rufa’I [/caption]
Governor Nasir el-Rufa’I was welcomed to Jema’a local government area of Kaduna state by hundreds of women and youths protesting against the killings in the Southern part of the state allegedly by Fulani herdsmen.
The women, mostly half clad, and the youths stormed the LG secretariat where Kaduna el-Rufai is said to be holding a security meeting with the local government officials and traditional chiefs.
The women in their different submissions alleged that soldiers followed some of the youth in Garajere shooting sporadically, killed one and injured many last night.
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At the local government secretariat, it was alleged that the protesters were shot at by soldiers.
The interim chairman of the council, Bege Katuka, had placed a 24-hour curfew on the beleaguered town, and had said it would last until the security situation improved.
“We want to ensure that relative calm was completely restored and unnecessary tension averted before a review of the curfew would be considered.
“We will continue to plead with especially our youth to conduct themselves within the provisions of the law and to not to engage in criminality,” he said.
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El-Rufa’I, a Fulani himself, had infuriated most Nigerians when he admitted on December 2 at Government House in an interaction with journalists that the state government had paid Fulani herdsmen to stop the killing in Southern Kaduna.
“We took certain steps. We got a group of people that were going round trying to trace some of these people in Cameroon, Niger republic and so on to tell them that there is a new governor who is Fulani like them and has no problem paying compensations for lives lost and he is begging them to stop killing,” the governor said.
