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House Of Reps Asks Inspector-General Of Police, Army To Find Killers Of Southern Kaduna Residents

House Of Reps Asks Inspector-General Of Police, Army To Find Killers Of Southern Kaduna Residents
May 8, 2024

The call followed the adoption of a motion on matters of urgent public importance moved by Reps member, Daniel Amos at the plenary on Tuesday.

The House of Representatives has asked the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, as well as the Nigerian Army and the Department of State Services to collaborate and bring to book the perpetrators of the killings in Ambe community of Gwantu, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The call followed the adoption of a motion on matters of urgent public importance moved by Reps member, Daniel Amos at the plenary on Tuesday.

Presenting the motion, Amos said around 7pm on Sunday, May 5, two unknown gunmen on motorcycles stormed the venue of a birthday party celebration of an aged person in Ambe community and killed six people and injured many.

Amos informed the House that the youths of the area summoned courage and apprehended one of the gunmen and handed him over to the soldiers on special duty at Gwantu.

The lawmaker added that some of the victims are currently receiving treatment at the University Teaching Hospital, Jos. 

 

SaharaReporters had on Monday reported that suspected terrorists killed at least six people and injured eight others in an attack on Ambe community in the Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

A source privy to the incident had revealed that those injured had been taken to a nearby medical facility for treatment.  

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