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Motorists And Commuters Urges Military To Take Fight To The Bandits On Gusau Funtua Road
Muhammad Bello
Some commutters and motorists plying Gusau to funtua road have made a passionate apoeal to the authorities concerned to urgently act to address issues of kidnapping happening along the road.
Some of them who spoke to our reporter in Gusau expressed regret that the road now is not motorable due to activities of bandits.
One of the passenger who travel to Gusau from Kaduna this Monday,Mal Usman Kalla said the road was blocked by bandits at three different places .
He said the first blockade occurred around Sheme to Yankara where they have to seek refuge in a nearby military check point.
According to him ,after the military cleared the road,they also encounter another set of bandits between kucheri and magazu ,and at a point before Tsafe town in which several community protection guard members were alleged to have been killed in an encounter with the bandits.
Also commenting a driver,Abubakar Jafar who used to ply the road said things are deteriorating on the road, stressing that kidnapping is now a daily affair in the road.
He said the security agencies stationed along the road are doing their best in addressing the problem but that more needs to be done to contain the situation.
Another respondent Musa Aliyu who is trader said plying the road has now become a night mare as bandits can strike at any time.
He said he used to visits weekly markets at Funtua, sheme, Yankara and Giwa but now he has stopped going because of the fear of the unknown.
They therefore appeal to the security agencies to wake up and face the bandits who are hiding near the road kidnapping people at will.
They also advocated for complete overhaul of the activities of security agencies serving along the road for enhanced performance and ensure adequate security of lives and property of commutters and other people residing along the road.
Our reporter report that in the last few days bandits have heightened their activities in the area kidnapping people at will in between security check points from Sheme a distance of Seventy kilometres to Gusau.
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SolaceBase reports that the suit was instituted by Hajiya Kudirat Shuaibu Akaje against Tajudeen Olalekan Adeoye as first defendant, AVM A.M Sadiq(RTD) as the Second defendant and Kano State Ministry of Land and Physical Planning as the third defendant.
The presiding judge, Justice Musa Dahiru Mohammed on October also ordered the pasting of a caveat on the conspicuous part of the property situated at Divine Estate, Jaba, Fagge local government of Kano State covered by C of O No. LKN?RES/2010/4431.
The court granted the order after listening to counsel of the plaintiff, Barr. AbdulHafees D. Khalid.
The matter was later adjourned to November, 1st, 2024.
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