•Yakowa condemns attack
…Denies killings took place inside mosque
From NOAH EBIJE and ABDULGAFAR ALABELEWE, Kaduna
Gunmen suspected to be robbers, yesterday went on the rampage, killing 20 persons in Dogo-Dawa village, Birmin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The gunmen were said to have opened fire on worshippers returning to their houses after the dawn muslim prayers, in what was also believed to be a reprisal attack.
A resident in the village told Daily Sun: “This morning (Sunday morning), the criminals came back and went to the house of the man they suspected to be responsible for identifying them, killed him and two of his children and cut the hands of his wife. The hoodlums also killed 17 other people in the village. I learnt that those people they killed were just returning from early morning prayers.
“I can confirm to you that it was not a robbery operation, it was the criminals that came on a reprisal attack because the people have been identifying them.”
When contacted on phone, Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Olufemi Adenaike, disclosed: “We cannot ascertain the number of people killed for now. Moreover, we cannot say what or who was responsible for the attack.
“Some people are saying the attackers were Fulani herdsmen who were probably on reprisal attack. But the question is: what reprisal attack? So, my men have moved to the scene to get details of the incident. We couldn’t get immediate information from the area because the network there is very poor. But as soon as we get the details and number of people killed, we will let you know.”
Daily Sun gathered that the massacre was a revenge attack by armed robbers as the vigilante group in the community had aided the capture of some robbers who were terrorizing villagers and travelers in the past few weeks.
Daily Sun also learnt that the attackers had written a letter to the community notifying them that they were going to avenge the arrest of their gang members by the community.
However, some villagers sharply disagreed with the armed robbery theory, insisting that the attackers had other motives beyond robbery.
It would be recalled that there had been incessant robbery incidents in the area, especially along the Kaduna/Birnin Gwari Expressway, where some women were even raped.
Based on this, the community, Daily Sun gathered, had set up a committee to help find out those who were responsible and put an end to it.
The committee did a good job as they were able to identify some of those responsible for the robbery and other criminal activities in the area.
The eyewitness added: “A former hakimi (village leader) in Dogo Dawa was in charge of the committee that was responsible for sanitizing the area and that was why, in the last three months, there was no robbery attack in the area as the people were able to identify the criminals and they were being eliminated secretly one after the other. The criminals must have fled the village when they discovered that they no longer had a base there.”
As at press time, residents of the village have begun to flee Dogo Dawa and the neighboring villages to avoid further attacks.
Meanwhile, Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of Kaduna State has condemned the attack, even as government denied and condemned the report by Al-Jazeera Cable Television that the victims were killed inside a Mosque.
A statement issued by Senior Special Adviser to Governor Yakowa on Media, Mr. Reuben Buhari, stated that,even as government awaited further reports on the issue from the Police, it was disturbed by reports being aired by Al-jazeera cable television, alleging that those who lost their lives were killed inside a mosque.
al-jazeera will the killing as been perpetrated inside mosque because that is it’s vision and mission, one thing is common when were killed their bodies will be rushed to the mosque before newsmen got the information, it happened here where l live sometimes back. Pple in the community has said the cause it should there4 not be given religion or ethnic decoration
But gvt gv a prms dat dey wll protect d psn why dnt dey kp 2 their prms. Is a pity
this is terible.
Inside the mosque, then who cud be responsible? Is also the same people,don’t decieve us we are not kids.
For arm rubbers thy will wht every thyw want to cover thier tracks, so ths comes as a no surise. May Allah have mercy on them.. Now civilians flee frm their land for the fact that thy ar afraid nd govt can nt guanranty thy safty.
those behind bombing the country should pls shelve down there sword 4 the sake of peace and unity,we have no other country than nigeria.we shold talking about development not killing of our there nabours,enough is enough,tank u 4 taking the advice.
My brother Abokis, that is why we are saying let us put heads together and agree on how we can stay together. Do you know the meaning of SNC?
According to you, “gvt gv a prms dat dey wil protect d psn and now gvt dnt dey kp 2 their prms
Sorry for the death of your brothers and sisters. The pain is too much especially for the Igbos that suffer it every now and then.
May their souls be accepted by Allah. But why is it when a xtian is been killed, it will be the news headlines on every paper irrespect of the circumstand and who did killing, the media will make the mews that they were killed in church by muslim. No true muslim who does not know the implecation of sheeding of the innocence be he a xtian, a pegant, a muslim who so ever, Allah will hold for that on the day of judgement. Now some muslims were killed in the mosque while praying to Allah the same media said its a gunman an armed robber, what non sense!! Robber ké? But if its in the church they are islamic militant. We don’t the chance of peace coexistance if we speak out the truth of a situation who ever its happened to. May Allah gurde us to the straight path. May Allah give us the ability to the right from the wrong so we can live together in peace and harmony, ameen.
The media is always our major problem in this nation, when something happens they would not cool-down and do proper investigation before passing the informations accross, something that happened outside a mosque you are telling d world that it happened right inside the mosque haba!
Typical news from up North.It is either somebody is getting his limbs cut off or some mature grizzly old mallam is having sex with a girl of nine.The main feature is bombing.I feel sorry for the average Northerner.Their leaders have really messed them up.They are now more than 200 years behind their brothers in the South.I pray that Boko Haram come to their senses and start a serious campaign to eliminate their NORTHERN LEADERS who turned them into beggars all of the country.It is just too sad.
I hate whenever something we will always lay the blame on the government.I good to lay the blame on then but its only a fool that makes it a life style.In this Perilous times that we are in what we need is The Wisdom of Solomon.RIP
My people of nigeria let’s us join hand Ąπϑ say war against terror expecially democratic country
Is a pity that the leaders in the North cannot address this madness , imaging where we will be recording massacre every week. The world is actually going agog.
Wat is dis world turning 2, y must people takes oda peoples life any how, God pls come 4 ur childrens rescue.
If you are waiting for the government to do everything for you, continue waiting.
May d souls of dz killed rest in perfect peace. Amen.
The press ar not helpin matters @all. If people wil b killed cos they gav help by ID’ing d scumbags behind there atrocities, then y should d press Kip mentioning names? Low security mentality. Then i beta mind my biz
It is time the people route out their elected leaders who have refused to think kindly of them.
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Is Dogo Dawa part of this country.if it is ,the state and the federal government have no excuse for abetting the massacre as a result of gross negligence of responsibity by allowing the security situation to degenerate to the point of self help before the unimaginable happened.What kind of callous leadership we have in this country.If oil were found in that community the draculas of the government would have been there to feast on it like bloodthirsty witch
That the police does not know the number of people killed in the attack when they were asked by reporters simply means that our police does not respond to crimes or even have knowledge of one as fast as they should. The force commissioner said that he has not gotten reports from his men in the area due to poor network, yet he told the reporter that some people was saying it was a reprisal attack. How or where did he got that information from?. Again, from where was the reporter calling the commissioner if there was no network coverage to the area? How comes the police could not confirm even the number of people that were killed?. Our police should wake up to their duty to protect our lives or relinquish it to the vigilante groups.
Bokoharam nd killings didnt start today one of their military president killed army oficers mostly midlebelt oficers nd he killed delegiwa through letter bomb nd further looted excess 2billion dollar oil wind fall only to himself while his pple today ar 90% poor nd 90% illiterate nd more than 26 million of them ar almajiri street beggars. Indeed nig is one
Imagine this statement I quote “Daily Sun also learnt that the attackers had written a letter to the community notifying them that they were going to avenge the arrest of their gang members by the community. “In quote this goes to show how lackadaisical and insignificant our law enforcement agents’ attaches to issue of security. If our law enforcement agents are serious enough they would have nipped these gruesome killings to the bud. I know they must have been duly informed of this revenge mission, but due to the fact that it is not a place they can extort money that was why they felt unconcerned about it. Inspector General of police has a case to answer for this extra judiciary killings. Government should not be paying huge amount of money for the policing of its citizenry, yet the agency whose slogan depicts “Police are our friends” are not doing their jobs as they ought to do and their neglect has continued to create lope holes for extra judiciary killings in the country. If the law enforcement agents are up and doing most of the crimes would have been nipped to the bud. The killings, either Christians or Muslim are totally condemned and barbaric too.
Way forward let the agency policing the citizenry be up and doing. They should be alert and follow-up any report of reprisal attack and stop entirely all these lackadaisical attitude to their official callings. With this, the unwholesome killings here and there will reduce drastically. Our Nigerian police have the enabling environment and all it takes if they really want to dislodge any crime.
Why is it that Alazeera, likes to give news that is capable of formenting trouble?
north is boiling. my advice to Igbos there is to relocate Igbo land.
my own is that the word of GOD must reach all over the world,and boko haram is nothing to stop it, Nigeria should ask GOD for the forgiveness of sin if not the worst is coming, this is just the begining.
Uche meaning what? Must every problem be spiritual?
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may their soul rest in peace Amen.
We are watching and observing. U said this is the beginning?
Bros understand his statement ‘if and only if we go on sining. But ask not for forgiveness’ that could be the begining. Take NOTE
We are watching and observing. U said this is the beginning? Whatever u plan shall end on ur heads. We very well know that even the boko haram issue is from u. We have the facts and proves. Because many people arrested with bombs christians.
Gov of kaduna,NPF Have to patrol on there road 24 hours not to harass vehicles, not tọ reliable on network. For the secunity of town/villages
Gov of kaduna,NPF Have to patrol on there road 24 hours not to harass vehicles, not tọ reliable on network. For the secunity of town/villages.
May d souls of the dead rest in peace. A wake up call for all and sundry: if the dead were to be xtians, it would have been reported that d gun men where muslim terrorists, muslim extremists, muslim this, muslim that. Now that the victims were muslims who should be held responsible or accused of the killings? May be we call them christian avengers?
There is nothing to investigate about. We all know that Satan recently changed name to Boko Haram and only boko groups killS with Gun and Bombs. They attached the group coming from prayer that refused to go for attack with them. DOG AGAINST DOG.
Na wooo
How can Yakowa deny the fact that they were killed in the mosque? is he blind? the blood that is all over the mosque premises from were did it come abi was he the one that went and pour it? the damage have been done all we pray is for a thing like this never to happen again. may their souls rest in perfect peace.
so sad that northern nigeria z turnin 2 another iraq where ak47 is just a normal thing like garri…we all have to call on jeovah God 2 intervene or else diz z just d begginin..let d hausas wake up 4rm their slumber coz oda state r fast developing
This is not a new thing frm a country where blood sucking demons are harbored… I dnt blame them. It would be better if our leaders would put more efforts to bring down d killings in this country, by acting witout fear or favor….
Please my fellow nigeria brothers lets shed our swords and embrace peace.
Why cant Nigerians stop these senseless and unwanton destruction of lives and ppties? Even nature is weeping for Nigeria, if u doubt it ask the flood!
Bala u are either a big fool or a stalk illiterate.Why are u attacking a man who said we should move to God in prayer to enable him heal and deliver our country Nigeria.Instead of u to pray,then u are busy calling him a Boko Haram when u are quite aware that the origin and founder of Boko haram is from Northern Muslim readers.U people should be wise one day.U are blaming Christians who have greatly suffered from Boko haram insurgent.Christians who have died in thousand from the hands of the so called soldiers of Allah(Baptized boko haram).Until u people wake up and challenge the demonic blood suckers who live among u,boko haram may swallow u all.The killing that took place in kaduna may be as a result of cries of Christians who have decided to be on their knees before almighty God and pray for back to sender.Ofcourse,they may mistaken Muslims coming out from mosque as Christians coming back from church.This is just the beginning because God is a living God and he hears the prayers of his people.Until u all repent and accept Jesus as ur person saviour u cannever see peace since Jesus is the peace, alpha and omega.Be wise man!
Bala, r those who say dey’r boko haram spokespersons & r forcing d govt 2 dialogue with them christains? Bala l’m asking U, r dey Xtains?
Those that is destroying peoples who never ham they lives wit no expectation. RIP!
May God help nigeria!
we re all mature not only by size but also on the ability to tackle problems when they arise….i strongly feel that people should watch over their tongue because in the tongue lies the power of life and dead..what has hapened has hapend and can not be reversed …we just pray that God should prevent future occurance thats all..
What we need now is prayer, may those who lost their life rest in peace
The issue now is not christian or muslim, but 2 sanitize the system.
They should not stop. Kill yourselves. The north shall know no peace, coz they murdered sleep. Why should they bombed the church God on Easter day???? This is just the beginning. Bala, keep on observing, i bet u, you won’t have anything to record at the end of ur observation.
D world is coming 2 d end, people killing people dieying, evil thangs hapening, our generation needs 2 make a change, it has 2 start 4rm u, positivity is d watch word, coz we are Nigerian’s dream
Son of David have mercy on us and save your heritage
the northerners (muslim) are paying for what they have cause the christian. let them at least feel the pain
Bala U’re very right! Had it been the victims were christians, no doubt d suspects will be boko haram even without any prove. You pple jst lyk to criticize we d Muslims, u can go ahead Allah can neva let Islam down e.g more dan a million americans hv converted to Islam becos dey find it as a complete way of life. In every bomb blast dat happens right inside a church, d suspects are always members of dat church and u pple end up criticizing d Muslims. Hv U ever wondered why a fellow worshiper will hv d guts to think of bombing his/her place of worship? But U jst choose to be Critics instead of praying for solutions to come.
if this killing continues ,there may be nobody left in kaduna in few years to come.
Everyday come with bad news,when will stay in dis nigeria without a report of mourning?
which armed robbers ? this is a diversional strategy. It is purely an attack on the Muslim worshippers
I find it rather appaling that an idiot like I WILL KILL AGAIN. be saying such nonsense, we muslims where ever do not take our problem to any one to solve or solicit the sympathy of idiots like i will kill again, but now you are laughing and jeering isn’t it. wait 2moro it wil be ur turn to cry.
Bala wawa! That is your full name. Illiterate!
In as much as the moslems are the ones killing each other, I pray that allah wil energise them and remove their brains to gather more vigour to continue in as much as christians will not be victims. and I pray that whenever they plan evil against the churches God will redirect their paths to the mosques where their bombs will explode. Amen
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