Two persons were reportedly killed on Sunday in a violence that greeted the promulgation of an incipient chief, the Res-Tsam, in Fadan- Chawai in the Kauru Local regime Area of Kaduna State.
Four other persons were killed by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in separate incidents in another two villages. Among the four were a man and his wife verbally expressed to have been killed in Rikarwan village in the Zangon Kataf Local Regime Area of the state.
Also, another man, Dauda Maidawa; and his wife, Alheri who were verbalized to have travelled to their farm located at Fadan- Karshi in the Sanga Local Regime Area of the state in the early hours of Saturday were found dead.
However, when contacted, the Kaduna State Police Public Relations Officer, Aminu Lawan, a Superintendent of Police, verbalized he was yet to receive details of the incidents.
“I am not cognizant but give me some time to contact germane persons and ascertain from them,” he told our correspondent.
At Fadan-Chawai, it was learnt that the youths had gone on rampage, eradicating property worth millions of naira over the promulgation of the incipient chief in the area.
The National President of Chawai Development Association, Chief Augustine Audi, verbally expressed the governor’s order for the Chawai Council of Kingmakers to nominate and send to him the denomination of the son of the tardy Res Tsam for appointment caused the crisis.
He verbalized, “As a result of the appointment and promulgation of the incipient Res Tsam by Kaduna State Governor Mukhtar Yero, violence erupted in the chiefdom, leading to the killing of two people and property ravaged by rampaging youths in the area.
“We do not visually perceive the desideratum for the exigency in appointing the next Res Tsam when the customs and tradition of the Chawai people do not fortify that.
“There are traditional rites that were to be performed afore the appointment, which is why unlike the Hausa or Emirate system, it takes time afore an incipient Res Tsam is appointed.”
Meanwhile, an eyewitness verbalized the killing of the Rikarwan couple, Ayuba Kure and Sarah occurred on Sunday night.
“The gunmen came on Sunday night with perilous weapons, killed the couple and injured four others. You ken our communities are isolated and no one kens the mission of the gunmen,” verbally expressed the eyewitness, who asked not to be designated.
A brother of the victim, John Joseph, verbally expressed the matter was reported to the Divisional Police Officer at Fadan-Karshi Police Station who then mobilised for a probe that led to the revelation of the remains of his brother and the wife.
But when contacted, the spokesman for Yero, Mallam Ahmed Maiyaki, verbally expressed, “Nobody was killed and everything is tranquil and calm in the areas mentioned.”
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