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Rumaya:
Ex-Commissioner, brother arrested for questioning
By our correspondent______________________________________________________________
A FORMER Environment and Natural Resources Commissioner in Kaduna
State Mr. John Haruna has been arrested by the police in connection
with the district headship tussle in Rumaya community of Kauru local
government area.
It was gathered that John Haruna, his brother Iliya and one Ibrahim
Galadimawa were picked up on July 7.
New Nigerian on Sunday gathered that the arrests came at the heels
of last month’s clash between the police and Rumaya youths in which
a police inspector and a young man were killed.
A section of the community has been contesting the appointment of
the district head, saying the man picked is an imposition.
It was learnt that when the police was informed about a threat to
peace in the community, police officers were sent to the area to
maintain orderliness which led to the killing of a youth and police
inspector as both parties clashed.
Investigation showed that the killing of the inspector angered the
state police command which immediately drafted detectives to bring
to book those who may have been behind the crisis.
Recently, the Commissioner of Police Alhaji Tambari Yabo Mohammed
who spoke to journalists on the crisis in Rumaya said his men were
looking for the former commissioner and other elites from the area
who allegedly have been goading the youths to take the law in their
hands.
Among those arrested include Kingo Zamani, Lawal Bawa and Emmanuel
David who were picked up by the police on different dates.
It was gathered that the men who were arrested more than a fortnight
ago could not be granted bail as the police is waiting for the
directive from above.
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