Curfew imposed on southern Kaduna as killings persist

An interim caretaker committee has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Kafanchan town in southern Kaduna as protests took over the town following continued violence in the area.

The curfew is to forestall a breakdown of law and order in the area.

Southern Kaduna had over time witnessed persistent killings with the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, recently revealing that he paid some Fulani herdsmen to forestall peace, a disclosure that resulted in heavy criticisms.

The curfew was imposed by the chairman of Jema’a local government area in state, Dr Bege Katuka, according to Leadership.

Kafanchan, the commercial nerve-centre of southern Kaduna, is the headquarters of Jema’a local government area.

The report says that hundreds of youths, women and children took to the streets in the morning of Monday, 19 December, 2016 to protest the continued attacks and killing of residents by suspected herdsmen.