Bin Laden’s death: Residents flee to barracks in the north

There was pandemonium in some areas in the Kano metropolis on Monday as residents scurried to army and police barracks for fear of reprisal attack on them over the killing of the Al-Queda leader, Osama bin Ladin.

In Hotoro, in Nassarawa Local Government area, one of the places that recorded heavy toll during the protest against the outcome of the presidential election, many non-indigenes ran for safety in panic.

Their fear was further heightened as some hoodlums were reported to have to have started grouping for undislcosed reasons.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the state police command, Mr. Magaji Majiya, told our correspondent on the telephone that the command was in control of the situation in the city.

He said the command would not take anything for granted.

Majiya said the curfew imposed as a result of the post election violence still subsisted, assuring the residents that there was reason to panic.

Though, no attack was eventually visited on anybody as a result of the killing, some of those who ran to the barracks, however, told our correspondent that they wouldn’t be caught unaware this time around.

Mr. Chike Israel, a banker, said, “We are living witnesses to what happened when the Americans and its allied forces attacked and bombed Afganistan. We cannot also forget in a hurry how the hoodlums reacted to the arrest of former Iraq leader, Saddam Hussien.

-Punch

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