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Youths set house, farm of federal lawmakers on fire in Kano

Some youths suspected to be political thugs, on Wednesday set ablaze the residence of Senator Kabiru Gaya, in Gaya Local Government area of Kano State.
Senator Kabiru Gaya

Senator Kabiru Gaya

Some youths suspected to be political thugs, on Wednesday set ablaze the residence of Senator Kabiru Gaya, in Gaya Local Government area of Kano State.

The youths also set ablaze the campaign office and poultry farm of the House of Representatives member from the area, Alhaji Abdullahi Mahmoud.

An eye witness told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that the incident occurred around 11 am on Wednesday.

According to the witness, the youths were protesting the alleged failure of the two politicians to fulfil the promises they made to them during the electioneering campaigns in 2015.

It was gathered that security agents had initially dispersed the protesting youths, who later regrouped and burnt the senator’s house before heading to the campaign office and poultry farm of the House of Representatives member.

NAN gathered that the hoodlums had also attempted to burn the residence of the Chairman, Gaya local government but were over powered by the security personnel deployed to quell the violence.

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of Kano State Police Command, DSP Magaji Majiya confirmed the incident.

He said that the police in the area were still trying to contain the situation.

“Our men in Gaya are still trying to bring the situation under control but as soon as we get details of the incident, we will keep you posted”, he said.

5 Comments

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    Politicians use these youths during their campaigns and abandon them once the win. Is this pay back time?

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    OK. We shall see!!! Continue to seek office for the sake of your pwn pockets.

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    Lols! This is just the Genesis… when we get to Malachi… APC must confess.
    Youths oooh! Well done and I expected more from you people.

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      This isn’t about APC/PDP… Politicians use the gullible and naive populace to get into offices only to abandon them.
      If this case is truly ‘the people’ fighting back, then cool. But if it’s another opportunity by ‘another politician’ to take advantage of the Countries current economic woes (mind u, both PDP/APC state Govts are crying for funds/ owing staff salaries n so on), then it’s highly unfortunate. Cause it means the naive and gullible populace still hasn’t woken up from their slumber i.e. work done = zero!

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    Provided the youths are not instigated or sponsored by another political opponents, they should please open chapter offices in each state of Nigeria, and descend on all the looting politicians, living in affluence at the expense of the masses. No political party should be spared please. Let’s chase the looters out of Nigeria at least for now, and since they won’t want to run to dubai or UK or US, then this planet will become uncomfortable for them all, which wll serve as a deterrent for others with potentials to steal. Congratulations to the youth and Nigeria