The Daura Emirate Council in Katsina State said it has suspended all
activities lined up to mark the forthcoming Eid-Al-fitr Sallah
celebrations scheduled to commence next week.
Malam Abdulmumini Salihu (Danejin Daura) made the disclosure on behalf
of the emirate council in a statement issued in Daura on Monday.
Salihu said that the suspension of the Sallah activities was due to the
recent unfortunate security breaches bedeviling some parts of the state.
He said that the recent happenings which led to the kidnap and brutal
killings of some innocent citizens of the state were saddening and
unfortunate.
The emirate said it would use the period to commiserate with the
government of the state, citizens and the victims relations over the
unfortunate development.
It added that during the day, only two raka’at Eid prayers would be
observed after which marathon prayers and supplication would be
conducted to invoke divine intervention over the precarious security
challenges.
The council, however, directed all the 16 district heads, 245 village
heads and the wards heads, to organize and supervise prayers in their
areas of jurisdictions with a view to achieving lasting peace and
stability nationwide.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the district head of Daura,
Alhaji Musa Umar-Uba was recently kidnapped at his residence in Daura by
some unknown gunmen and since the incident, no contact was made with him
or his abductors and the ancient town had been gloomy.
NAN also reports that 34 people were last week brutally murdered in some
parts of the state by some unknown gunmen, an incident which made the
state government to assent to a law that prescribed capital punishment
for kidnapping, cattle rustling and armed robbery.