Conflicting figures and crisis of identity have trailed the killing of some factory workers in Kano State, North West Nigeria, as the police claimed eight were slain while the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the state insist the number is 13.
Addressing a news conference over the issue, the state police commissioner Musa Daura, said the information that 13 people were killed by unknown gunmen who stormed a house occupied by factory workers in Sheka Maidaki area of Kano metropolis, has no basis.

According to the police, on that same day, the police received a distress call that a village in Kumbotso Local Government Area was attacked and the police later identified eight persons that were killed.

Mr. Daura, who could not disclose the identity of the victims, maintained that they were just human beings like any other person.

But contrary to these claims, the Chairman of CAN in Kano, Ransome Bello insisted that 13 people, all Christian, were executed on that day by unknown gunmen.

He presented a list of eight people killed to Channels Television but stressed that they were still investigating to identify the remaining five

Although the police say a number of arrest have been made and investigation was on-going, CAN said it’s concern was the identity of the people killed and the silence by the police authorities for over a week before the incident was made public.

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