Kaduna State governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has included Jema’a and Kaura local government areas, to the number of Local Governments in Southern Kaduna under 24-hour curfew. Like Zangon Kataf and Kauru, Jama’a and Kaura are now in total lockdown. This according to El-Rufai is to contain the ongoing violence and to ensure the enforcement of order and protect lives in the areas.
El-rufai made this known on his verified Twitter handle @GovKaduna.
More security assets have been placed in southern Kaduna since 2017 when an army base was built in Kafanchan. Troops from Operation Safe Haven and two mobile police squadrons are also deployed in the area. These boots on the ground need communities to resolve to live in peace.
— Governor of Kaduna (@GovKaduna) July 24, 2020
In his words “….At the request of security agencies, the Kaduna State Government has extended to Jema’a and Kaura LGAs the 24-hour curfew that is in force in Kauru and Zangon-Kataf LGAs, with immediate effect. This is to help contain violence, enforce order and protect lives.”
This implies that Kafanchan a commercial city in the region will be on total lockdown rendering the preparation for Eldel Kabir and other economic activities in the state subregion inactive.
El-rufai in a statewide broadcast media chat attributed the “cycle of attacks to revenge and reprisals”, a comment that didn’t go down well with elites and stakeholders in southern Kaduna.
