Onitsha violence: Northern govs take measures to avert spread, call for calm

Date: 03-12-2015 7:12 pm (8 years ago) | Author: [email protected]
- at 3-12-2015 07:12 PM (8 years ago)
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Governors of the Nineteen northern States on Thursday
took undisclosed security measures with a view to
ensuring that Wednesday’s violence that included burning
of places of worship in the commercial city of Onitsha in
Anambra State does not spread to the northern part of the
country.
Speaking on behalf of the nineteen Governors, Borno
State Governor and Chairman of the Northern States
Governors’ Forum, Kashim Shettima whose statement was
issued by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau on Thursday
in Maiduguri, said the Governors, particularly those of
major cities were in touch with another yesterday and had
taken some firm measures that aim at averting any spill-
over.
Shettima said the Governors took the undisclosed
measures, following media reports claiming that worship
places were touched during the Wednesday violence in
Onitsha.

Posted: at 3-12-2015 07:12 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
- moralemike07 at 7-01-2016 11:27 AM (8 years ago)
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