Panic in Kano over Osama

Posted by admin Kano, Latest Politics, State News Monday, May 2nd, 2011

The ancient city of Kano was once again plunged into confusion yesterday, following reports of the death of Osama Bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man and the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade centre (WTC) in New York.

As the news hit into the city, non-indigenes living in violence-prone areas fled their homes to take refuge in military and police barracks.

There was pani in Kawo, Tishama and Badawa as well as other suburbs, as residents ran helter, skelter for their dear lives.

As apprehension reverberated through the length and breadth of the city, non-natives, besides those who fled to barracks, were seen dashing towards safe areas, particularly Sabon Gari, largely inhabited by non-indigenes.

It was learnt that children and their mothers were the first to flee their homes, in what has been described a desperate move to avoid a repeat of the post election violence in which several people were killed. Now, nobody wants to be caught unawares.

Worried by the situation, the Commissioner of Police on election duty in the state, Mr. Dan’Azumi Doma, assured the people that there was no cause for alarm, as the police have made adequate security arrangement to handle any possible threat to lives and properties.

Doma said in a telephone chat with The Nation “The police are on red alert and I advise the people to return home because there is no cause for alarm.”

There was however, no report of violence in any part of the city, a development that made the people who earlier fled in the morning, to return home in the evening.

-The Nationwp_posts