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Kajuru killings: Police fault El-Rufai, say account inaccurate

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The Commissioner of Police in Kaduna State, Ahmad Abdulrahman, has described as inaccurate the account of Governor Nasir El-Rufai on the recent killings in Kajuru local government areas of the state.

He said contrary to the claim of the governor, the Fulani were not the only ones killed in the mayhem.

The police boss who spoke with journalists on Thursday also said he warned the governor on the figures as investigation was still going on.

He said he told El-Rufai that until investigation was completed the correct figure might not be known.

His words:  “I told the governor that figures in a crisis of this magnitude should be left (unquoted) until all investigations have been concluded in all the areas where information is coming from, are covered.

“You cannot come up with a figure, otherwise you will quote a particular figure now and quote another later.

“This is what is happening now.

“As far as the police are concerned, we are still investigating and the investigation is ongoing.

“We are working on three prominent theories.

“First is that unknown gunmen, believed to be Fulani, attacked the Adara people and escaped in the night on 11 February.

“The DPO in charge of the area immediately mobilised his men to the area and combed the bushes in search of the perpetrators in the middle of the night.

“It was there that they started seeing the carnage.

“Unfortunately, the Adara natives went to the Fulani communities and carried out a reprisal.

“However, we have arrested one of the suspected Fulani that attacked the Adara people.”

It would be recalled that El-Rufai had earlier declared that the attack was carried out on Fulani in the area and that 66 people were killed.

He later announced that the casualty figure had risen to 130.

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