By Gideon Njoku
Alarmed at the violent riots by Muslim youths which erupted in Sokoto, Sokoto State on Saturday, May 14, 2022, the Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has slammed a 24-hour curfew on Sokoto with immediate effect.
Tambuwal said it is to protect lives and property.
It is not known if the Muslim Youths who stormed the streets in their hundreds, will obey the Governor’s order, and what Security Agents could do if they don’t.
The youths are protesting the arrest of two persons by the Police, involved in the gruesome killing of Deborah Samuel, a second year Christian student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. They are asking for their release.
In the process, they are also on destruction spree. The Catholic Cathedral, Sokoto, the seat of Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, has been torched. A number of Christians have been beaten up, and their houses and properties and businesses either torched or destroyed.
Security Agents are battling the situation to restore calm.
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