Kaduna State govt makes shocking revelations over killing of 16 Kano Indigenes along Abuja-Kaduna road

The Kaduna State government has disagreed with reports credited to the Kano state government over the cause of death of 16 travellers on the Abuja-Kaduna highway.

The Kano State Government had released a statement saying the 16 residents of Dambatta Local Government Area of the State died when an unidentified gunmen shot at their tyre causing the driver to lose control and the bus fell in a ditch.

However, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in Kaduna, Samu Aruwan said the road accident was not as a result of gunmen attack.

The story that 16 indigenes of Kano State were killed by bandits on the Kaduna-Abuja Road is incorrect and misleading.

The fact is, they perished at the Rigachikun axis of Kaduna-Zaria Road in a road accident following a burst tyre.

The spokesperson of the Kaduna Police Command, Muhammad Jalige also said the travellers had an accident at the Rigachulun area along the Kaduna-Zaria expressway and not a bandit attack.

Jalige said three persons survived the accident. Stating that 9 persons died on the spot while 7 others died while receiving treatment at a medical facility.

“The command, by this release, states the facts as it happened and implore the general public to discontinue the attribution of this painful loss of life to banditry as its received the news the shocking incident with empathy but needed to make the clarifications on the matters bothering on national security to allay the fears and apprehension the misleading information must have put in the minds of people and road users,” The Kaduna Police said.