Friday 8 March 2013


Police Say Eight Persons, Not 13, Killed In Kano On February 23

The Kano State Police Command has said that eight, not 13, factory workers were murdered in cold blood in Shekar-Maidaki, a suburb of Kumbotso Local Government Area on February 23.
One online report put the figure at 13, and quoted the Kano State chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Ransom Bello, who lamented that the killings failed to receive the publicity that usually followed similar killings.
Responding, the Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Musa Daura, told newsmen that, the story, as published by PM News and other online media sites, was misleading, and regretted that not asingle person or group contacted the police to authenticate their story.
He continued, "I want to make it categorically clear to the press and the general public that on 23/2/2013 at about 2200hrs a distress call was received at the control room that unknown gunmen attacked and killed innocent people in Shekar-Maidakiin the suburb of Kumbotso local government."
He disclosed that armed security men were immediately deployed to the scene, the area was cordoned off, and a search was conducted so that the perpetrators would not escape.
He said his men recovered eight dead bodies during their search, and that several persons were arrested.  Investigations are continuing towards unraveling those behind the killings.

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