Zayyan Gwandu, son of Haliru Gwandu Abubakar, the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Special Anti-Robbery, has died.

Zayyan was one of the victims of reprisal attacks following the killings in three local government areas of Plateau State by suspected herdsmen.

Popular social commentator Gimba Kakanda shared the news of Zayyans death on Twitter, writing: “I’m devastated to learn about the killing of Zayyan Gwandu in the Plateau clash. He’s one of the travellers stopped and killed for sharing a religion or ethnicity with Fulani herdsmen. Killing fellow human beings for the wrong of people they don’t even know is savagery. Wow. RIP.”

Subsequently, Kakanda wrote on Facebook: “Citizens getting stopped and killed for sharing an ethnicity, religion or culture with criminals they don’t even know? Is this the overflowing anarchy we call a country? Of course I know what we have done wrong, Nigeria. Millions of things. We are here because we have been pretending that we don’t notice these killings and destructions until the victims begin to seek an illusion of justice in the wrong place.”

Although Kakanda refrained from revealing the identity of the deceased, SaharaReporters independently verified that he was CP Gwandu’s son.

“Yes, it is true that the CP’s son is no more,” a source very close to the Gwandu family told SaharaReporters, before asking to say no more as “this is a trying time for the CP’s family”.

Zayyan’s death marks an elongation of a very difficult period of time, personally and professionally, for CP Gwandu.

The SARS, which he oversees, has recently come under public scrutiny on account of the high-handedness and criminal activities of its officials. Following the relentlessness of the anti-SARS campaign, Gwandu was forced to announce a repositioning of the squad.

In December 2017, he announced that the Nigeria Police Force had begun the process of dissolving the federal and state SARS into one unit that would be under the supervision of the commissioners of police of each command. ‎

He said a lot of changes had taken place, and that there would be training and retraining of personnel of the unit to enhance efficiency. He explained that after the re-organisation, the unit would only concentrate on violent crimes such as murder, armed robbery and cultism. He also promised that at the completion of the ongoing re-organisation of the unit, extrajudicial killings by SARS would be a thing of the past.

Some months before then, Gwandu had been forced out of Edo State as the CP, following intense campaigns by citizens and a coalition of civil society groups over the rising crime rate in the state.

The reprisal that claimed his son was a reaction by Christians to killings of about 100 people by suspected Fulani herdsmen in many villages in Riyom, Barkin ladi and Jos South local government areas of Plateau.

Before the news of CP Gwandu’s son’s death filtered in, a source in Plateau had lamented the under-reported reprisals, telling SaharaReporters: “I lost four friends on the road; they were butchered. Birnin youth were killing all Muslims on the road. One of them clearly picked my friend’s phone and said to me, ‘We’ve killed him. Are they not the two Muslims in E-Class?’”
http://saharareporters.com/2018/06/25/police-commissioner-charge-sars-loses-son-reprisal-killings-after-plateau-%E2%80%98herdsmen%E2%80%99

Harm Duli Lahi!!

Terrible thing happening and we are pretending as if all is well with Nigeria. How can innocent people be killed at will?

It is well with this country in Jesus name. Just dumbfounded !

This is the problem I have with the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra, they are advocating that anywhere you see Muslims kill they,
That is the end of the beginning of the division of Nigeria, and that is the aim of the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra ethnic and religion propaganda through the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic party PDP to sponsor the attack on both Christian and Muslims

we need serious prayers in this country

Nigeria is bleeding, we are heading towards a civil war if we don’t get our act together and when it’s happens everyone will be affected including those who kept quiet because of political/ religious affiliation

olatade:
we need serious prayers in this country

Time for Prayers is gone.


Arm yourself for Winter is coming

Omooba77:

The reprisal that claimed his son was a reaction by Christians to killings of about 100 people by suspected Fulani herdsmen

Bias report by a suspected Fulani.. Why is it always "suspected" Fulani herdsmen & the Christians are "confirmed" I hate bias/ deceit

So it's a Fulani man that is inchage of SARS ..Now its all making sense to me ...SMH

Fulani in charge of both SARS and police. No wonder the genocide against Christians in Nigeria.

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May God forgive all of us; we are just killing ourselves like fowls. God help your need.

All this southern/christian/pdp guys, i dont know what is happening to u guys. There is ethnic crisis and u are very quick to term it "killing christians" and as it stands now, the number of muslims killed is thrice the number of christians killed in the crisis but u all claiming that it is only christians that are victim of crisis using ur fake websites

Buhari and APC will lead to the end of this nation

E done happen

This is what happened when a leader failed to lead. People start taking laws into their hands. I hate saying may his or her soul in perfect peace. This could all be avoided when a leader leads.

They can't justify the gruesome massacre of our people on flimsy excuses. These are calculated killings fuel by hatred from the herdsmen. The plateau man you and I know is very peaceful and welcoming and doesn't deserve this treatment. Just like Gen. TY Danjuma rightly said, we (especially the youths) must wake up and defend our people from total annihilation by this blood thirsty monsters. An average plateau man can never be cruel to a creature as tiny as an ant so why the wickedness? These killings have been on for over a decade now so the issue of rustling of their cattle doesn't hold water. The plateau youths must rise up and form vigilante groups to defend their God given land just like their forefathers did otherwise there won't be a future.

...CattLe RuStLing__the new excuSe for IsLamic Jihad in the middle belt!!

While the killing is going on by Buhari foot soldiers aka herdsmen'his ally Tinubu the great and his supporters are on SEE NO EVIL HEAR NO EVIL MODE.

buhariguy:
This is the problem I have with the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra that anywhere you see Muslims kill they,
That is the end of the beginning of the division of Nigeria, and that is the aim of the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra ethnic and religion propaganda through the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic party PDP to sponsor the attack on both Christian and Muslims

go to school you will not go. you are here writing transmission, transition, translation, transmission, transition, transmission.
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