Trouble in Niger community as irate youths kill 200 pigs
Crisis broke out on Saturday in Kafin Koro, in Paikoro Local Government
Area of Niger State when youths in the community embarked on the mass
slaughtering of cows.
The irate youths allegedly killed 200 pigs when they took to the
streets to protest the domestic animals exhuming of the body of a
five-year-old boy from a Muslim burial ground and ate it, leaving only
the head.
The incident infuriated the Muslim minority youths in the area who took
their grievances to the District Head of Kafin Koro, Alhaji Abubakar
Mamman.
Instead of appealing to the youths to be calm, Mamman allegedly ordered that any pig sighted in the village should be killed.
With the consent, the district head, the Muslim youths went from house
to house, chased the women, who owned the pigs away and killed over 200
of them.
The women, numbering well over 300 and whose husbands were said to be
in their farms when the Muslim youths invaded the home, mobilised and
packed the dead pigs and dumped them in the palace of the district
head.
Though Mamman fled from his palace for fear of being humiliated by the
angry women, they occupied the palace until midnight on Saturday when
anti-riot policemen from the state police command came and dispersed
them before the body of the dead pigs were removed from the palace.
There was a twist to the incident on Sunday morning when some youths
from the village believed to be children of the women destroyed some
property in the community.
No life was lost as at the time of filing this report, but hundreds of
people were injured and houses and other property worth millions of
naira were destroyed.
The state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Ketso, accompanied by the local
government chairman, Hon. John Makarfi, visited the area to douse
tension which was almost spiralling out of control to other nearby
communities.
The command Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Bala Elkana, could not
be reached for comments as all his lines were switched off- The Authority
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