Chief Imam of Dogodawa
Community Mosque, Mahmud Mohammed, on Monday narrated how he hid himself
in an abandoned tyre, watching how worshippers leaving the mosque were
killed in Kaduna on Sunday.
Over 24 worshippers were
reportedly killed while many were injured during the attack on mosque
by suspected armed robbers at Dogodawa village in Birnin Gwari Local
Government.
Mohammed said he saw over 100 heavily armed bandits shooting the worshippers.
“The killers were saying
that they had come to make real their threat. They shot and killed even
children, it was sad indeed,” he said.
A traditional title-
holder of Danlawan Birnin Gwari, Alhaji Abdurauf, who blamed the police
for the incident, said a governorship aspirant in the state, Alhaji
Shuaibu Mikati, had earlier alerted the police to the threats to life
and property in the area by robbers.
He said, “But nothing was done until the dawn attack on Sunday which has turned the entire area into deep sorrow and mourning.”
He said Mikati wrote a
letter to the Inspector-General of Police, notifying him of the warning
issued by unknown persons who had vowed to unleash terror on the area.
He said Mikati appealed
to the police to upgrade the police post at Dogodawa to the status of a
police station “but instead they gradually withdrew the six policemen
that were stationed at the police post and that led to the closure of
the police post”.
He also said four members of the vigilance group were identified by the gunmen and killed during the raid.
Meanwhile, Patrick Yakow has said will
summon an emergency meeting of the state security council to strategised
on how to drive away criminals from Birnin Gwari.
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