President Buhari Visits Kaduna To Intervene In Crisis

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President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in Kaduna State.
His visit is part of efforts aimed at finding a lasting solution to the consistent killings in the state in recent times.
Buhari is expected to meet with religious and traditional leaders as well as other stakeholders.
THEWILL recalls that the paramount Chief of Adara, Agom Maiwada Galadima who had been in the den of his abductors was killed last week.
The Kaduna State Government confirmed this in a statement on Friday and immediately reimposed a 24 hour curfew in some parts of the state following wanton killings.
Four persons including a policeman were killed along Kaduna/Kachia road by the alleged abductors on Friday Oct. 19 before taking away the monarch, his wife and driver.
Both the driver and the wife were freed by the kidnappers, leaving only the chief in their custody.
Alos the Nigeria Police Force has said it had arrested 93 suspects who actively participated in the recent killings in Kaduna State.
Following the killings in Kaduna, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, deployed the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 7, Taiwo Lakanu, to lead a police intervention force to the state to ensure that normalcy return to the area.
Force spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, who made the disclosure while addressing newsmen on Monday in Abuja, said that 43 of the suspects were being prosecuted while 50 were still in police custody.

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