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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported that fake news circulating in the social media is fuelling the farmers/herdsmen crises in Nigeria.
In the report by the media organisation, it stated that “fake pictures circulating on social media which users are falsely claiming depict inter-communal violence are inflaming already high tensions in Nigeria.”
The international media outfit, specifically made reference to repellent images circulating in the social media which the originators purportedly claimed were from recent violence in Jos, Plateau.
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“A gruesome image of a woman face down in a pool of blood with a gaping shoulder wound is purported to be from the recent attacks.
“It has hundreds of retweets on Twitter, but it first appeared on the internet in 2011 in a story about domestic violence in Nigeria.
“Another image appears to show half a dozen people that were killed in the attacks.
“On closer inspection it becomes clear that the picture was not taken in Nigeria, and is actually the scene of a 2015 traffic accident in the Dominican Republic.
“They are both too graphic for us to display and were accompanied by highly inflammatory comments.”
The BBC further made reference to an unverifiable reports by media organisations in the country which further aggravated the crises.
“Earlier this week, major Nigerian news outlets ran a story claiming that Danladi Ciroma, a leader of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, said the attacks in Plateau were revenge for the loss of 300 cows.
“Since these cows were not found, no-one should expect peace in the areas,” Mr Circoma is reported to have said.
Ciroma had refuted the report and the media organisation had reportedly tendered apology.


source: https://m.guardian.ng/news/fake-news-aggravating-herders-farmers-crises-in-nigeria-bbc/

No fewer than four policemen serving with the Benue state command have been killed when suspected gunmen attacked Anyibe community in Logo LGA of the state.
The incident took place on Sunday night.
Moses Yamu, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in Benue told DAILY POST on Monday that the gunmen invaded the community at about 6pm on Sunday.
He said, “Sadly, at the moment, four casualties have been suffered by the Police.
“Additional reinforcement (including the Air Asset of the Police) deployed by the Inspector General of Police is in pursuit of the murderous gang.
“They shall definitely be apprehended with their weapons of destruction and made to face the full wrath of the law.”
The attack came barely 24 hours after a police officer was killed when some boys believed to be working for wanted criminal, Terwase Akwaza,
otherwise known as Ghana, attacked Tse Ikyeen village in Ukum LGA of Benue State.

http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/16/four-policemen-killed-gunmen-attack-benue-community/

Afriifa:
So they should fold their hands and let another ethnic group cleanse them from their lands abi?
no tribe has monopoly of violence.

Did you read the post ?

Popular opinionist and native of Taraba State, Kefas Dauda, has written the state governor, Darius Ishaku, accusing him of fueling the ongoing clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the state.
Several lives, including property worth millions of Naira have been consumed in Taraba State as the
result of the clashes between herders and farmers
with the latest attack in at Jandeikyula village of Wukari claiming over 30 lives.
The state government and some stakeholders had before now accused the army of not playing neutral roles in the ongoing war, thereby calling for self-defense.
However, Kefas, in an open letter to the governor and obtained by our reporter on Sunday, argued that the governor should come clean on the secret roles he played that inflamed the crises, rather than pointing accusing fingers at the Nigerian Army or the security agencies.
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The writer in his missive detailed the shocking underground roles Ishaku played that worsened the fight.
He voiced his thoughts in a letter entitled You Are The Problem And Not The Army: An Open Letter.
His letter reads in full.

Your Excellency Sir,
YOU ARE THE PROBLEM AND NOT THE ARMY: AN OPEN LETTER
I wish to extend special fraternal greetings from a younger brother, kinsman and political adherent to you. I extend same to the entire people of Taraba and pray Almighty God to end our current despicable afflictions, hatched and fuelled by state leadership actors.
I am pained to scribble down this open letter to you. I am more saddened upon the realization that the ongoing bloodbath in my dear state of Taraba is unnecessary, avertable and should not have stretched this far. There is no reason to keep us in perpetual wailings only if our leaders restore their suspended wisdom, sense of judgment and downplay the elevation of clannish, ethnic, religious and partisan interests above the sacredness of human lives.
Your Excellency Sir, I was one of the many Tarabans who initially believed the violence, killings and mindless bloodbath in our budding state are spurred by the deceptive configuration of herders/farmers crisis. But after the crisis prolonged beyond expectations, with faint possibility of cessation, I decided to take a deeper and more critical interest in studying the forces at play in the state, particularly in my ancestral enclave, Takum Local Government Area.
What I have discovered in the last few weeks has really saddened me. To my greatest surprise and contrary to widely held views, the public perception of the crisis as a conflict between herders and farmer is a façade to cover-up the silent state-sponsored agenda of ethnic cleansing embarked upon by your administration.
The latter-day unjustifiable inclusion of the Nigerian Army into the raging tenor of the conflagrations in Taraba state, only shows to what extent the state actors in the crisis are prepared to execute this barbaric and unacceptable agenda. Mr. Governor, I know of your intentions of stamping the superiority of the Jukun tribe in Taraba state from the inception of your administration. It reflected in the formation of your cabinet and appointment of personal aides.
What never crossed my mind is the thought that you would resort to territorial suppression and conquest, by seeking to violently undermine the existence of other ethnic groups, in a multi-ethnic state like Taraba.
Mr. Governor, you vainly searched for ways to execute this evil plan on the people of Taraba, until the opportunity offered itself belatedly, when you borrowed the idea of anti-open grazing law from Benue state. This is a law which you have used as a spark to precipitate the current crisis of annihilation of other tribes in the state.
The youths you allegedly armed as foot soldiers in prosecuting this evil agenda have caused a lot of atrocities in various communities in the state, embarking on silent killings, acts of arson and cattle rustlings. When the situation became tough and unbearable for Tarabans, they cried out loudly and President Muhammedu Buhari responded by deploying the Army to quell the crisis.
The antagonistic and hostile reception of the Army in the state was orchestrated by you, through cronies you have empowered in lawlessness. And when Gen. TY Danjuma (rtd), an elder statesman, who is believed to have planted you as Governor of the state in 2015, raised unsubstantiated allegations of the Army colluding with attackers against people of the state, it ennobled you to deepen your destructive hold on the state.
It is now indisputable that the youths allegedly armed by you are emboldened by Gen. Danjuma’s persuasion of self-defence to commit more heinous crimes against our innocent people, by killings, maiming and destructions, which Is erroneously, but deliberately attributed to Fulani herdsmen.
As if insulting our sensibilities thus far is not enough, your government has allegedly graduated into sponsoring public protests by groups against the Nigerian Army and other security agencies to release your arrested armed youths caught in grave criminal acts in some communities.
Candidly, this is an aberration because assuming you had no special interest in the crisis rocking our state, as a leader, you would have allowed the law to run its full course on the arrested suspects. But instead, you are seeking to rudely and crudely interrupt their lawful interrogation in order to allow the bloodbath to fester.
Nothing has exposed your secret plot of ethnic cleansing than the protest a few days ago in Takum Local Government Area. My secret findings indicate that Takum Local Government council Chairman, Hon. Shiban Tikare unwittingly confirmed the killings of innocent civilians by armed militias sponsored by the council.
Soldiers intervened to restore peace and arrested some of the suspects. And almost instantly, protests by faceless groups, allegedly sponsored by you and the Takum council boss, calling on the withdrawal of the Army and release of two suspects earlier arrested over the unrest in the area is most unfortunate, uncivilized and against established lawful conventions.
Your Excellency Sir; it is time to have a rethink about the conflagrations you and your minions have ignited and plunged the state. Tarabans are tired with the crisis. Please, stop arming youths that are causing problems in our communities. The Jukuns in Taraba are not after ethnic supremacy. We want to continue to live peacefully and harmoniously with other ethnic nationalities in the state.
Our Governor, stop this bloodshed and the genocidal proportion of massacres of innocent people. Allow security agents, particularly soldiers to perform their constitutional assignment of peace keeping and restoration of normalcy to our troubled areas. We are sick and tired of this game or agenda you are gleefully and arrogantly executing.
I know this letter may anger you; it may incense your ardent supporters and it would instigate reactions of varying dimensions against me, from your clan of ardent adherents who are making huge political and financial capital from the unabated crisis. But the truth cannot be shielded forever.
Rather, it is my inner conviction that posterity may not forgive me, if I fail to speak out the truth at this critical hour or keep silent in the face of this wanton killings, destructions and needless restiveness.
Mr. Governor sir, you are our problem and not the Nigerian Army or other security agencies. Look inwards; remember the God you serve, who Himself admonishes us that we are created equal in His own image.
I know this open epistle to you has placed me on the path of danger or posed obvious threats to my life. I could be incapacitated or even killed by your hirelings or armed militias no comfortable with its contents. But I am not perturbed, because even if I die, I will die a happy man, knowing I died for the truth. Once again, stop arming the youths responsible for the restiveness in Taraba state.
And you have no option than to take the decision to disarm these youths now, because you have created a template for these armed youths to embark on vengeance. The armed militias are killing innocent people in communities they have had issues over ancestral lands and disguise same as “farmers-herders crisis.”
Again, lastly, Your Excellency, even though I share the same ethnic affinity with you, but I cannot subscribe to this idea of ethnic cleansing. So, I feel duty bound to speak out because no individual or group Interest is worth the continuous shedding of blood of innocent Nigerians anywhere they are domiciled.

Thank you for your patience and time in perusing this letter. And may Almighty God grant you the wisdom to harken to the voice of conscience by disarming the youths to end these deadly crises.

http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/15/taraba-killings-kefas-dauda-writes-ishaku-reveals-alleged-shocking-roles-farmers-herdsmen-crises/

Story story… The first photo was used weeks ago in another allegde herdsmen attack

Herdsmen ?
the latest name in town.
Now even if two agberos are fighting over #50 it will automatically be fulani herdsmen attack…
Shm for our youths

How can we as people circulate pictures/ news like these without any proof. And this is even done suppose governors aid really baffle me.
Out security agencies are really dormant
#NOTOHATESPEECH

Now that the FG is proactive to avert any posible reprisal, people are insinuating theor motive.
Had the Fulanis' are allowed to revenge, they will flood the internet with complains on how the FG knew about the attack,and refuse to send the military… Shm for leaders of tommorow
Most everything be politics ?

Hypocrisy of the highest order !
See as people are justifying / rejoicing the killing of their fellow humans just for their hatred against the tribe…
Some are even calling the news fakes cause it those not go along their intention( to cause division).
SMH

So people will believe this source. Little wonder most of the sources are facebook or twitter users. Looks like Nigerians dont know the evil effect false imformation. Seun, Time to bring satity back to NL is now…

So people will believe this source. Little wonder most of the sources are facebook or twitter users. Looks like Nigerian dont know the evil effect false imformation.

Seun, Lalasticlacla, Myndd44. Do justice to the news !

Udantu:


I didn't see or read any herdsmen killed so when did human life become equivalent to that of cow

Thats their means of livelihood! They will protect it with their last drop of blood.
Are you sure those kidnapped would not end of dead ?

And the brown envelope Nigerian journalist are not reporting and no newspaper is carrying the news… but if its the other way round, they will turn it to a day sermon. SMH

73 cows were killed while 18 other cows were injured in an early morning attack on Yamadaga village, Kadarko community in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State by suspected cattle rustlers.
The cattle rustlers invaded Kadarko community around 4:00 am on Sunday, January 29 shooting into the air. They were reported to have kidnapped two persons, chasing other cows into the bush in the process.
The victims of the attack who were mostly herdsmen claimed that the masterminds of the attack were Tiv farmers and that it was a reprisal attack.

Ahmed Abdullahi one of the cow owners said the rustlers unleashed mayhem when the villagers were asleep.
“I was sleeping and then I heard bullet sound everywhere, I didn’t see anybody but they killed my 73 cows, some of them were dispersed into the bush and I haven’t seen two of my children,” he said.
Scenes of the attack on Yamadaga village, Kadarko community in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa state by suspected cattle rustlers on Sunday, January 29.
A chief in the village, Ardo of Yamadaga, Husseini Adamu, said the attackers were numbering close to 1,000 and they struck welding various dangerous weapons.
“In the morning around 6:00 am, our children saw some Tiv people numbering up to 1,000 holding sophisticated weapons. They killed some cattle, went away with many.
“They even took motorcycles. Before I came, the place was already in chaos and we realised that at a spot they have killed 73 cows excluding the ones that they carted away with and also they went with two of our children,” he said.
Nasarawa State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Bello, confirmed the report of the attack to Channels Television. He said investigations are on to unravel the identity of the attackers.

https://www.channelstv.com/2018/01/29/73-cows-killed-18-others-injured-by-suspected-cattle-rustlers-in-nasarawa/

Indeed, the Nigerian news papers and bloggers drive joy on sensational jornalism just to sale or drive traffic to their sites…

There is no denying what is obvious. Herdsmen have attacked rural communities in different parts of Nigeria. The attacks are often brutal; the attackers would surround a village in the dead of night, shoot indiscriminately and set fire to huts. The killing is also indiscriminate; they kill anyone they can find, make the rest of the community to flee, then melt away into the hills and bushes almost without trace. The police almost never find the culprits.
Members of the sacked community then run to the authorities for help, telling gory tales and claiming they were attacked without the slightest provocation. Political leaders, escorted by heavily armed policemen and soldiers, then arrive at the scene, pressmen in tow. They condemn the heinous deed, inspect the damage done and promise to send help to the victims, which they hardly ever do. Armed policemen are then posted to “guard” the sacked community, a case of locking the stables after the horses had bolted. Sacked community members then languish in IDP camps, with scant food and water supplies and after many months of fruitless wait they slowly drift back to their communities to try to rebuild their lives.
Meanwhile, the politicians make much capital out of it, but only where the attacks are along the country’s ethnic, regional and religious fault lines. Even though criminal killings are going on in many parts of Nigeria, newspapers shout the loudest only when some sides of the divide carry out atrocities. Otherwise there is little media interest and there is no political capital to be derived from the killings. Where the herdsmen themselves or their ethnic, regional or religious kinsmen find themselves at the receiving end, as happened in Mambilla and Numan, the dominant news media takes little interest in happenings and sees it as either a case of just deserts or, where both combatants are from the wrong ethnic and religious divides as in Zamfara, as dog-eat-dog.
Where the herdsmen are involved, the sacked farming communities always say that the attacks were unprovoked. Most reporters do not bother to question this claim. That an attack was unprovoked could be true only in a certain context; most of the women, children and the elderly in the attacked communities did nothing to the herdsmen and probably did not even know that anyone else offended them. Yet, to the herdsmen themselves, every attack that they launch is a “reprisal” attack. That they leave thousands of villages along their routes untouched and sneak upon some specific ones suggests that somebody in that community did something; either killed a herdsman or rustled some cattle.
Part of the problem we have is that the herdsmen live in another age and they have different rules of engagement from the one most of us are used to. For example, the ugly notion that when someone offends them, every member of his village ---woman, child, aged and infirm---is fair game in a reprisal attack is deeply offensive to modern value systems, not to mention United Nations conventions. But then, the herdsmen never read any UN convention. The bad news is, herdsmen are not alone in their ignorance of UN war conventions. During this country’s frequent inter-communal clashes, tribal militiamen on all sides are brutal and indiscriminate killers and they kill more people with clubs, spears and Dane guns than Europeans and Americans can kill with tanks and fighter planes, hence the notion of “high-tech, low casualty wars” and “low tech, high casualty wars.”
Equally problematic is the lack of statute of limitations in the herdsmen’s rules of engagement. Their “reprisal” attack could be for a deed that was committed many years ago. Many villages in Southern Kaduna State came under attack in 2012, a year after the 2011 post-election violence. From all indications the herders were avenging for their kinsmen who were killed in Southern Kaduna villages in 2011 when the violence that started in the state’s northern parts spilled over into Southern Kaduna. The same thing happened in Plateau State arising from the violence that followed the November 2008 local government elections. Long after urban folks had sheathed their swords, herdsmen sneaked up on villages for revenge.
The notion promoted by politicians and the mass media that herdsmen are all out to eliminate Tivs, Southern Kaduna natives, Middle Belters or Christians is a political stretching of the fact because the herdsmen hardly know that there is a “North Central geopolitical zone,” much less aim to extinguish it. Despite their supposed ethnic affiliation to Shehu Dan Fodio, most of today’s herdsmen practice Islam only nominally and are pre-occupied with survival, not religion. Those who say that herdsmen have a “Jihadist” agenda are accusing the wrong party because the herders themselves need a second coming of Dan Fodio to revive their religious practice.
Since 2012 Fulfulde-speaking bandits have killed far more people and sacked far more villages in Zamfara State than they did in Benue State. How come no one said they were trying to wipe out Zamfara State, North West zone, Hausawa or Muslims? Exactly the same brutal methods used against Benue villages were used against many villages in Zamfara State, in southern Katsina State and in the forested areas of north-western Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari Emirate. In most cases it was “reprisal” attack because local vigilantes killed or captured some bandits.
Prof Wole Soyinka went so far as to say that the herdsmen have declared war on Nigeria. How could they do so, when most of them are hardly aware that Nigeria exists? They have probably never seen a map of Nigeria. They do not know a local, national or international boundary when they cross one. What they know of Geography is what they gleaned the hard way by marching up and down the country with the seasons. Herdsmen were out of the loop with regards to government’s health, educational, housing, water or power projects over many decades. Now the chicken are coming home to roost.
Despite the neglect, the herders that I knew when growing up in my hometown respected state authority, the traditional aspect of it. They were always a very visible presence in alkali courts, police stations and traditional rulers’ courts trying to settle disputes. They report offenders to these places and they are also regularly reported to these places. Gaunt Fulani Ardos stroll in and out of courts, looking peaceable, walking unsteadily, speaking in low tones, greeting everyone along the way, generous with their kolanuts, always asking for directions, armed only with sticks. These days it is different; too many of them have acquired firearms in response to the challenge of cattle rustlers, no thanks to our inability to police our ports and borders.
Evidence abounds in recent years that the pastoral society has undergone a physical and value-system breakdown, much like the rest of Nigerian society. When a friend first told me fifteen years ago that the armed men that robbed him on the highway were pure Fulani ethnics, I found it very hard to believe, except that every Hausa speaker knows the Fulfulde accent very well. Soon afterwards I began to hear more and more stories about Fulani youths being the robbers on the Abuja-Kaduna and Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highways. Now there is no doubt about it; most of the kidnappers on the Abuja-Kaduna and Birnin Gwari highways are Fulani ethnics, not to mention the Zamfara bandits who are often well known to their victims.
So there is a crisis at hand in which climate change, population pressure, influx of small arms into Nigeria, the criminality of other ethnic groups as well as government’s total neglect of a large community’s needs over several decades have come together in a very combustible mixture. Among the suggested solutions already on the table is Wantaregh Paul Unongo’s idea of raising a Tiv national army.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/this-thing-called-killer-herdsman.html

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Chocolate City founder, Audu Maikori, has apologized to the College of Education in Gidan-Waya, Kaduna and the Kaduna State Government, for sending out false information about an attack on the school.
Maikori at the time claimed that six students of the school were killed by Fulani herdsmen, including his driver’s younger brother.

The College of Education released a statement denying the incident and Maikori faced a lot of backlash on social media, with many saying he posted fake pictures.
However, he has now published a retraction on his Facebook page and claims his driver, a certain Simon Joseph, misled him.
His statement in full:
“Following the statement by the College of Education, Gidan-Waya Kaduna and the Kaduna State government refuting the story that 5 students of the school were killed by Fulani herdsmen en-route to school on the 27th of January 2017, as reporter by my one Simon Joseph (my personal driver) I decided to further investigate the story to ensure that all the facts of the case and evidence were presented to the authorities.

My driver Simon Joseph had travelled to the village to attend his younger brother’s burial and on his return on Monday the 30th of January 2017, I asked him for pictures from the burial, the ID card of his brother and also pictures of the casket so I could submit to the authorities and he told me that he had phone issues so he could not store pictures on his phone. He told me however that his sister had the pictures on her phone and I proceeded to give him money to go to Ikeja to get the pictures from his sister, so I could have evidence. He didn’t return till evening, and when he did, he showed me some blurry picture of a male body which didn’t show the face of the victim. At this point I began to strongly suspect foul play. I again questioned him about the veracity of his story to which he swore on the bible that his brother was dead and even began to shed tears.
Not totally satisfied with the story I made contact with his referees ( who helped to engage him) and they didn’t seem to know about any death in his family . So on the 2nd of February, 2017 I went in company of his referee one Mr Dauda to the Lekki Police Station for questioning in the absence of his providing any concrete evidence of the death of his brother and fellow students(He clearly didn’t suspect anything at this stage). When we got to the station, I lodged my complaint and when he was questioned he maintained his story about the deaths were real until the police officers at the station threatened to arrest him . It was only then that he confessed and said he was just trying to collect money from me; that he knew that I was involved in the advocacy on the Southern Kaduna crisis and he thought that I after obtaining money for me for the fake burial expenses I wouldn’t cross check the veracity of his story. So he was duly arrested.
Following this development, I decided that the right thing to do was to issue a statement retracting the tweet which reported the killings of students of the College of Education as relayed to me by my driver. And I had no reason to doubt him due to the spate of killings in the area and because in the 8 months he has worked for me, he had never “lied” to me about anything or so I thought. Besides why would any right thinking human lie about the death of a sibling?
Consequently, I hereby tender an unreserved and sincere apology to the Management of the College of Education, Gidan Waya, His Excellency the Governor of Kaduna State and the Kaduna State Government, and also to the people of Southern Kaduna and the Fulani community and also VANGUARD newspapers whos source was my driver for the false statement by my driver which I also publicized believing same to be true.
This action is made even more imperative because I understand that as a leader in my community, my statements are taken seriously and shapes the narrative. But nothing is more important in leadership than owning up to mistakes honestly and with integrity regardless of the repercussions or circumstances.
I make this statement with all sense of responsibility, realizing that by admitting what transpired, people may begin to doubt my credibility and that of my statements in future… this is a risk I am willing to take but I would rather tell the truth about the situation than suppress it.
Besides this what is clear to me is that there are people who are simply just creating and concocting pictures and stories to deliberately mislead people , like I was misled. With benefit of hindsight I should have checked the story in detail but given that I am not a journalist or Police officer my experience in these matters are/were limited.
I must also seize this opportunity to plead with my brothers in Kaduna, regardless of ethnic or religious persuasion that the time to unite and fight for peace is now. This unfortunate situation is now actively being used by crisis opportunists, politicians and some unpatriotic elements to forge their personal or commercial agendas to the detriment of the peace and stability of the state. This must stop.
Instructively, it is important to note that nothing in my clarification undermines the fact that the lives of Nigerians citizens have been lost in the Southern Kaduna crisis rather it refers to this particular incident which I have verified to have been untrue and fraudulent.
The arrest of the arrest of 17 suspects with arms and ammunition in connection with the Southern Kaduna killings on the 3rd of February by security agents is evidence that our agitations are yielding fruit and to that end I commend the government on these arrests as well as many more in the nearest future.
To this end, I am even more resolved in this quest for the restoration of peace in Southern Kaduna and also working even more closely with the all the stakeholders to ensure that normalcy returns to Kaduna. What is however clear is that unverified facts , hate messages and ethnic stereotyping only exacerbates the issues ,they don’t help the pursuit of peace.
As I speak, my former driver Simon has been handed over to the police authorities.He is available to help the authorities with any further investigations.
Finally, all the people that posted#IstandWithAudu I appreciate the trust bestowed on me and hope I haven’t lost it.”

www.dailypost.ng/2017/02/04/southern-kaduna-killings-audu-maikori-apologizes-posting-false-information-online/

Seun, if Nairaland is not one-sided this should make front page

Kaduna has turn to construction site now…

drss2:
taqiyya alert.
check d dates of publications. d so called skool management must be magicians who can see d future.

thumb up for the pics
No that was the day(24th) )you open the site.

The various road projects currently in progress in parts of Kaduna State and the intensity of work might be an indication that the state government has decided to overhaul the entire road network in the state this year.
The effort to rehabilitate the roads and construct new ones started last year with the allocation of N29.77bn to the Works and Transport ministry in the 2016 budget. Towards the end of last year, bulldozers and project vehicles went into action with the clearing and grading of vast kilometers of roads in the state capital.
Many of the projects are still ongoing but some, like the Ugwan Doki and Ungwan Sarki roads, were completed last year.
The work was intensified at the beginning of 2017 with the clearing and covering of drainages, cutting of damaged parts for repairs, refilling of loose patches as well as expansion works and mounting of street lights.
The state governor had last year said that the roads in the capital and other urban areas of the state needed serious work after a long time.
He said he discovered that even local government headquarters had no roads.
“Our roads sometimes have no drainages, so they don’t last. We want to tell our people in the rural areas that rural areas can also be cities. You don’t all have to move to Kaduna, Zaria or Kafanchan to have a good life. We will bring the good life to them, so we have a massive programme for every local government headquarter and town,” he stated.
Shortly after, the government awarded contracts for the construction and rehabilitation of many roads. These include the dualisation of the Rigasa-College Road, Anguwan Dosa, Aliyu Makama road in Barnawa and Sabon Birni road in Kawo.
Our correspondents learnt that the government took up no less than 75 different roads with a commitment to complete them before the end of the first quarter of the year.
They include the one in Barnawa which is 8 kilometers, Zaria road dualisation and the 20-kilometer link roads in Rigasa area while 53 of the roads are in Kabala with 26 in Ungwan Rimi.
The state Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport, Engr. Hassan Usman Mahmud, said the government last year awarded 11 road contracts including those earmarked for dualization and many township roads.
“The four dualization projects include the eight-kilometer Zaria road in Rigasa which provides access to the Abuja-Kaduna train terminal and the busy Aliyu Makama road in Barnawa, a 5.7-kilometer road. Others include the Ungwan Dosa and Sabon Birni dualization projects,” he said.
He said 29 more contracts were awarded covering roads in both urban and rural areas in 18 of the 23 LGAs of the state.
“We have awarded 30 other contracts, these include some township roads in Kafanchan, Sabon Gari, Zaria, Hunkuyi, Giwa, Makarfi, Ikara, Kauru, Kaura, and other local government areas and I believe more will come in all the parts of the state,” he added.
He said the Zaria Road project in Rigasa was awarded in January 2017 with an 18-month completion period.
The commissioner added that after the dualization in Rigasa, the state government realized that there would be higher traffic because of the Abuja-Kaduna Light Rail Terminal, so in addition to the dualization of the road, it is doing other township roads with a total stretch of 20 kilometers.
The government, it was also learnt, has made provisions for streetlights and relocation of services like electric poles, communication masts and water pipes within the roads while work has also gone far on the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) project in Kaduna metropolis.
The project will begin from the Kawo overhead bridge to the NDA, Rabah Road, Ungwan Sarki and terminate at Lugard Hall Roundabout.
To cater for buses, the existing dualised roads will be expanded to three lanes on both sides.
“The purpose is to be able to have a single dedicated lane that will be solely and uniquely for the specialized bus service called the Rapid Bus Transport (BRT) the kind we have in developed cities and Lagos,” the commissioner said.
Many residents of the state have applauded the drainage projects.
A resident of Badarawa, Mustapha Aliyu, said in his over 30 years of living in Kaduna, he had never seen such a massive road drainage project.
Mr. Richard Samuel of Sabo in Chikun Local Government Area described as laudable, the government’s efforts, especially on the drainage system ahead of the rainy season, saying it would reduce compensation payment and purchase of relief materials for displaced persons as a result of floods.
He however advised that in case of subsequent projects, residents of every community should be engaged in menial jobs involved in such projects in order to give them a sense of responsibility. He appealed to contractors handling the projects to complete the work quickly to reduce congestion on the roads.
“There are some areas where the refuse evacuated from the gutters are left on the roads, I think something should be done about them,” he advised.
Mama Rabi, who sells vegetables by the road side in Kaduna South LGA, commended the drainage projects, saying, “Even though it has affected my business because I had to give way to the workers to do their work, I still see the project as very needful, especially as it will help reduce flood and mosquitoes,” she said.
She appealed to residents of the state, especially women, children and traders to desist from throwing wastes in gutters.
Inusa Jibril, a resident of Tudun Wada, said the projects are creating jobs for the people and encouraged the government to initiate more to gainfully engage the people.
Some residents said they had to bear the many inconveniences due to the condition of the roads as the work lasts.
Residents of Rigasa, Rigachikun, Rafinguza and Hayin Danmani among others however said government is yet to commence such projects in the areas.

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