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Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by nijanigga: 8:38am On Jul 30, 2013
Had_one: THIS CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THE BOKO BOYS ARE NOT MUSLIMS.
But they claimed to be muslims and they are more Islamic than other moderate muslims and carrying out one of the five tenants of Islam-Jihad.Don't forget killer Al-mustapha is out and just met asari dokubo and gej has found a job for umoru dikko.
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by francisbiz: 8:41am On Jul 30, 2013
Osiris.211:


Those cowards are only good at quietly burying their brothers killed by boko boys while the internet warriors rants all day long.
Shut up!
You all want to drag Ibos into this. Every other tribe oppressed by the hausa/fulani Islamist tribal-sadists wants Ibos to fight for them.
Boko haram have killed yorubas, urhobos, ijaws, and edos and they are all waiting for the Ibos to fight for them; shame on these weak tribes that are waiting to lure Ibos to fight for them.
Ibos are wiser.

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Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Dospix(m): 8:41am On Jul 30, 2013
sobaemma: mark my word there will be bomb explosion in kano
sobaemma: mark my word,There will be bomb in kano state sabongari
This young man should know something about this bombing.I did a dig on him and discovered he posted this on multiple threads.We need real computer genius to thrace the ip address of this comment. We have a suspect,and this young man is our prime suspect.

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Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Nobody: 8:49am On Jul 30, 2013
Had_one: THIS CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THE BOKO BOYS ARE NOT MUSLIMS.
Yes o! Even their leader (shekau) is a "pastor"

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Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by soma042(m): 8:58am On Jul 30, 2013
Former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, has given the Lagos State Government a seven-day ultimatum to apologise to the 67 persons of Igbo ethnic nationality allegedly deported from Lagos to Onitsha in Anambra State or he would head to court to defend their interest.

Kalu said there was no law in the country, which empowers a state or governor to deport any Nigerian to any part of the country.

In a statement made available to THISDAY Monday, Kalu said there was right to freedom of movement for every Nigerian as enshrined in Section 41 of the 1999 Constitution.

While describing the action of the state government was lawless and vexatious, the former governor equally condemned it in strong terms, saying it threatens the corporate existence of the country.

Besides, the former governor argued that it was an open secret that the Igbo contribute about 55 per cent to the Lagos economy.

“It is appalling to learn that the deported Igbo were even detained in Ikorodu for about six months before their illegal deportation.

“They were taken to Onitsha in four buses, escorted by anti-riot policemen," he said.

One of them, Osondu Mbuto, a trader from Ohaozara in Ebonyi State, was on his way to his shop on December 18, 2012 when he was arrested by officials ofthe state’s Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI)and detained for no reason until he was deported in his father's land.

“The reaction of the state government that the Igbo were deported to reunite them with their families was the worst insult to any race.

“Governor Fashola's Special Adviser on Youths and Social Development, Dr. Enitan Dolapo Badru, said: ‘The end result is to reunite them back with their families.’

“What an affront against the collective will of Ndigbo or any other race in Nigeria to live and do business in any part of the country?

“The action of the state government is not only wicked but a clear breach of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended.

“To worsen the matter, most of those deported are not even indigenes of Anambra State. Is Anambra State now a dumping ground for any act of illegality? Is Lagos State Government above the law of the country? If not, can it operate another set of laws without recourse to constitution amendment? Is it not a travesty of justice that officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) were even used for this illegal act against the Nigerian state? Was the supervising officer, who allowed the deployment of the policemen, not told that they were going to be used for the deportation of Nigerians they were paid by tax payers' money to protect in their fathers' land?

“The action is a gross infraction to the rights of the deportees to dwell in any part of Nigeria without discrimination. With this wicked, crude and primitive deportation, I just wonder why a component unit of Nigeria, under the authority and supremacy of a constitution would choose to be lawless in such an unconstitutional conduct. Not even underthe military would such an action have happened.

“Even if a criminal offence was committed, the place to take them to is the court, not for them to be deported. The action of the Lagos State Government is lawless as it is vexatious and I condemn it in strong terms because it threatens the existence of our country. All patriotic Nigerians should say no to this xenophobic action of Lagos State Government because it usurps the powers of the federal government and disregards our constitution.

“I demand a public apology from the governor within seven days to all those illegally deported and a repeat of such anact must be stopped or I will head to court to defend the interest of the Ndigbo in Lagos. Enough is enough.”
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by docjuli(m): 8:58am On Jul 30, 2013
Dospix: This young man should know something about this bombing.I did a dig on him and discovered he posted this on multiple threads.We need real computer genius to thrace the ip address of this comment. We have a suspect,and this young man is our prime suspect.


Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Handsomeemmy(m): 9:40pm On Jul 29

Politics / Re: Igbo Traders Warned To Accept Yoruba Leader Or Leave Lagos by sobaemma(m): 10:06pm On Jul 29
bomb explosion in kano

Politics / Re: Fashola Gives 22-yr-old Vulcaniser N100,000 by sobaemma(m): 10:05pm On Jul 29
mark my word there will be bom explosion in kano

Politics / Re: Soludo Joins APGA As A Gubernatorial Aspirant by sobaemma(m): 10:04pm On Jul 29
mark my word there will be bomb explosion in kano

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Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by docjuli(m): 9:07am On Jul 30, 2013
sobaemma is just an Igbo boy who wants to be heard; most of his comments always Igbo this, Igbo that. He loves to be identified as a biafran.
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by LobsanRampa(m): 9:18am On Jul 30, 2013
Dospix: This young man should know something about this bombing.I did a dig on him and discovered he posted this on multiple threads.We need real computer genius to thrace the ip address of this comment. We have a suspect,and this young man is our prime suspect.
The first explosion occured at 9:12 p.m while the second was at 9:15p.m and the guy made his comment at about 10:03 p.m that is to say he heard the news before most of us that is all.
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Mubby4luv(m): 9:19am On Jul 30, 2013
COOL DK:


I think this guy has a case to answer! He said it will happen before occurrence.
I agree wit U, there is common sense attached to it undecided
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Mubby4luv(m): 9:24am On Jul 30, 2013
Lobsan Rampa:
The first explosion occured at 9:12 p.m while the second was at 9:15p.m and the guy made his comment at about 10:03 p.m that is to say he heard the news before most of us that is all.
It still doesn't make him a suspect. and still he needs to be questioned cox he made the post on The Fashola thread before the Last bomb. bam [b][/b]
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by austinkenneth: 9:38am On Jul 30, 2013
payless:


Well, I am not excited about this. I was only trying to make a point that this violence is political. It is getting out of hand. Someone is sponsoring this act of violence. They sponsors are in PDP. The violence will stop when we realize this.

My friend you and others always are u want us to dig out the posts for you?

What most of you do not understand is that you are not actually anonymous on this forum. the IP adress us recorded each time you make a post so its easy to jnow where ure posting from. you have a registered phone number and email through which you can be traced.

All you Igbo and Yoruba ethnic bigots. if you end up inciting violence from this forum that will lead to the death of others .........
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by docjuli(m): 9:39am On Jul 30, 2013
Mubby4luv:
It still doesn't make him a suspect. and still he needs to be questioned cox he made the post on The Fashola thread before the Last bomb. bam [b][/b]

It still or still doesn't?

Anyway, if you need his contact, he has it in one of his posts. MTN will help or Samsung for the real IP cos these days with IP it's kinda difficult. He uses a Samsumg s2, nothing much about the guy sha (name Emmanuel). Chilling in Kaduna (may be).
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Nobody: 9:53am On Jul 30, 2013
payless:


I used to live in the North and I can tell you those muslims would not do something like this during thier fasting period.

This is handowrk of Jonathan and his Ijaw touts. This is a ploy to distabilize the North, then declare State of Emergency. Igbo people are going to be the sacrificial lamb when it is all said and done.
SO YOU CAN AS WELL SHIIT THRU YA MOUTH?! And what if one of those foundamentalist groups come out and claim responsibility for the blast,are you gonna eat your shyte back? Yall are such hunk heads....and theres no way your bloody evil agenda to set up ourselves against one another is gonna work out....
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Nimson: 10:19am On Jul 30, 2013
God pls save our country from d hands of d wicked ones. My house is far from sabon gari but d sound of d blasts sounded as if it happened in my area... Father hv mercy
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Dospix(m): 10:39am On Jul 30, 2013
Lobsan Rampa:
The first explosion occured at 9:12 p.m while the second was at 9:15p.m and the guy made his comment at about 10:03 p.m that is to say he heard the news before most of us that is all.
My point,even though his comment were posted after the bomb blast occured,his comment sounded very emphatic as if to say he was aware of the bombing before its actual occurance. Situations like this can be capitalized on in a loosed country as Nigeria...that is the more reason we have to refrain from senseless and uncouth comment even though we are not physically visible.
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by HisExcellencyM(m): 11:03am On Jul 30, 2013
La haula Wala Kuwwata Illah billah... God have Mercy!
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by nedu666: 11:13am On Jul 30, 2013
one cold odeku for u. Bleep all ibos leaving up north. they deserve wat they get. l have said it without ibos in the north, there will be no religious riot. very simple.so Bleep them

COOLDUN:


What do you want them to do? they are being killed by the toothless bulldogs soldiers with an order from a dummy/village headmaster you call President, for not doing any thing wrong talk less of when they kill anyone.

Let me tell you and your brainless baby dolls that clicked like to your trash, that MASSOB is a non violence group, it was not formed to kill or retaliate to any body who foolishly chose to die in the hands of barbaric elements.

MASSOB, didn't advise anyone to stay put where they are not welcomes/needed. Those who see cheap food and mud houses and forgot their homes should bear the consequences. The people you want the MASSOB to fight for , are they not the people who are calling them touts and illiterates?

Whosoever that believes in one Nigeria should defend him/herself any where he/she is in Nigeria? MASSOBIANS are not Voltrons the defender of the Univers. They are the Biafran freedom fighters.

Let stubborn Igbos continue to reside in the North and other places they are not welcomed and wait for the MASSOB to be killing the shoe shiners, sugar cane sellers, suya hawkers, pit diggers, gate men,lorry loaders and nail cutters in Igbo land for them.

Leave MASSOB alone and mind your business, if MASSOB attack anyone in Igbo land now, you fools would be the first people to call them names. Nigeria devilish rulers have succeeded in filling your empty heads with the fluids of confusion,while nagging and complaining are your only source of comfort in Nigeria nowadays.

Any Igbo fellow who is not ready to die in the Northern Nigeria should relocate/return home. The choice is Optional.
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Nobody: 11:34am On Jul 30, 2013
francisbiz:
Shut up!
You all want to drag Ibos into this. Every other tribe oppressed by the hausa/fulani Islamist tribal-sadists wants Ibos to fight for them.
Boko haram have killed yorubas, urhobos, ijaws, and edos and they are all waiting for the Ibos to fight for them; shame on these weak tribes that are waiting to lure Ibos to fight for them.
Ibos are wiser.
well said bro!! @the end they all want the igbos to take the whole blame!! Foolish cowards

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Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by chinjo(m): 11:36am On Jul 30, 2013
payless:


I used to live in the North and I can tell you those muslims would not do something like this during thier fasting period.

This is handowrk of Jonathan and his Ijaw touts. This is a ploy to distabilize the North, then declare State of Emergency. Igbo people are going to be the sacrificial lamb when it is all said and done.
It is most disheartening that an igbo man will reason like this. Where have u kept ur thinking cap? When lives were lost in kano after the 2011 election was it as a result of president Goodluck Jonathan seeking re-election. Haba my brother think na. Let us team up and face our common enemies which I believe are those people who believe it is their birth right to rule the nation thereby sponsoring/financing terorist activities in Nigeria.
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by MASTERM(m): 12:36pm On Jul 30, 2013
abokine:
I normally read comments but never reply because the insaults usaully targets northern muslims or hausa/fulani, but for you to mension the holy prophet's name I will say to you this "may you not live to see the end of this week and may the raft of hell storm upon you and yourlike" may you not see peace in this world and after your death may your grave be a host for hell snakes and scorpions" Ameeeeeeeeeen!!!
Evil Vampires
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Anointing0000: 1:16pm On Jul 30, 2013
You wont belive it that was where i was born.. But we left there 11 yrs ago...
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by kingbang: 2:15pm On Jul 30, 2013
Anointing0000: You wont belive it that was where i was born.. But we left there 11 yrs ago...

Please lets clap for this dude!
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Nobody: 3:06pm On Jul 30, 2013
Akpa ife:
U are a mad dog


U are a mad gorilla
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by bornosheikh: 3:07pm On Jul 30, 2013
No be today...See Oyinbo discuss locals killing southerners in 1952

Surprising points :

1) Population of the North = 17 million
2) Oyinbo stated the 'economic importance' of keeping the three regions together (at all costs mentality)
3) Workers within the Kano native administration were armed and took part in these riots
4) Attacks took place in 'strangers quarters = sabon gari', so local youths went and attacked southerners.
5) Oyinbo was concerned that the attackers had police protection. SMH.
6) Never trust a Cracker

Same ish, different year

NIGERIA (KANO RIOTS)
HC Deb 20 May 1953 vol 515 cc2082-5 2082

§ The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:

80. Mrs. WHITE

To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies what information he has about the recent disturbances at Kano; and if he is satisfied that proper arrangements are made for the holding of meetings by persons who do not necessarily share the views of the ruling authorities.

§ The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. Henry Hopkinson)

With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and the permission of the House, I will now answer Question No. 80.

Serious rioting, the exact origins of which are not yet clearly established, broke out at Kano on 16th May, after the Native Authority had cancelled all permits for political meetings in view of prevailing tension. The rioting was largely confined to the strangers' quarter outside the city walls and did not spread to other parts of the Region. Originally the main participants in the riots appear to have been lawless hooligans, but the fighting soon took on an inter-tribal character, with Northerners fighting Southerners. Some of the rioters were equipped with firearms.

Following a curfew on 16th May the fighting died down but broke out anew on the following day. Substantial reinforcements of police and troops were flown to Kano that day and a state of emergency was proclaimed throughout the Region the following day, the 18th. My latest information is that the situation is now well in hand and the opposing factions have been separated by a barbed wire barrier. Casualties among the rioters according to latest reports total 43 killed and 204 injured. In addition three Native Authority police have been injured.

No troops have been used in action so far. Information is not available at present whether there has been significant 2083 damage to property. I am sure that the House will join with me in deploring this savage outbreak and in enjoining restraint on all political parties and groups in Nigeria in order that an opportunity may be given to repair the damage done to Nigerian unity by this useless violence.

As regards the second part of the Question, I would refer the hon. Lady to the answer given by my right hon. Friend on 18th March to the hon. Member for Leek (Mr. Harold Davies). But I should add that the Emergency Regulations made on 18th May apply inter alia to meetings and processions.

Mrs. White

Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us whether any special police precautions were taken before Sunday? Since notice of this meeting had been given and the meeting was cancelled and Kano is a well-known centre of communal dispute, I should like to know whether any special police precautions were taken in a situation which was likely to be troublesome. Secondly, as allegations are being made by the Action Group, who sent me a very long cable within the last half hour, that workers within the native administration were armed and took part in these riots, will the right hon. Gentleman ask his right hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary to see that an independent inquiry is made into the circumstances?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I have no information about special police precautions, but I have no doubt that the Lieutenant-Governor, who is extremely competent and who knows the situation there very well, will take all the necessary measures. With regard to the second part of that supplementary question, I have no information at the present time and I think that I had better await a further report before promising anything definite in the way of an inquiry.

§ Mr. J. Griffiths

Whilst agreeing at once with the Minister that we all deplore these riots and hope that there will be no repetition of them, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman that there should be a full inquiry into the immediate circumstances, particularly into the arrangements which are made before a meeting? Would the right hon. Gentleman find out whether it would be possible for the 2084 Governor to make an appeal, with which we would all like to be associated, to all leaders of parties in Nigeria at a time of political controversy to join together in appealing to their supporters to allow meetings to proceed peacefully without regrettable incidents of this kind? Do Her Majesty's Government propose at an early date to make a statement on the constitutional position and the arguments about it?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I will certainly make inquiries about police arrangements and inform the House as soon as I can. As to the constitutional issue, of course there is no doubt whatever that these events had their origin in political troubles and dissensions which we so much regret and which came to a head in March. I am hoping that as a result of my own visits there and the subsequent meetings of the two Southern Houses—the meeting of the Northern House is to take place today— and of the inquiries which have been going on, we shall be able to make a full statement of the intentions of Her Majesty's Government with regard to the constitutional issue in Nigeria before we rise for the Whitsun Recess.

§ Mr. Griffiths

Will the right hon. Gentleman undertake to see that an appeal is made to all political leaders to ensure that when they hold meetings the rival supporters do not come together?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

Certainly.

§ Mr. Tilney

Even though the recent riots tend to accelerate the centrifugal feelings of the three regions, will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the immense importance economically of keeping the three regions together and not letting them Balkanise themselves?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I am fully aware of all these matters and hope to cover them in my statement.

§ Mr. Hobson

Is the Minister satisfied that there is police protection for the Moslem majority in the North?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

There are 17 million people in the North of whom 13 million are Moslems.

§ Mr. Fenner Brockway

Will the right hon. Gentleman make not merely a Departmental inquiry but a very thorough, penetrating inquiry in view of the loss of 2085 life and certain very disturbing circumstances such as that the Lieutenant-Governor was warned five days before these riots and that members of the national administrative staff there had been given special leave so that they might attack a meeting which was being held?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

As soon as we have further information on these matters I have undertaken to inform the House, and I shall certainly do so. I am not aware of the fact that members of the administration were given special leave.

§ Mr. Fenner Brockway

I have had very definite information.

§ Mr. Alport

In view of the fact that Her Majesty's Government maintain strict impartiality in these matters, will my right hon. Friend ensure that the ex parte statements that have been made in various quarters of this House are not given more weight than they deserve?

§ Sir H. Williams

On a point of order. We have now exceeded Question Time by 35 minutes. Can we have the Ballot?

§ Mr. Speaker

I am grateful to the hon. Member for his assistance.

Mr. Dugdale

May I ask the right hon. Gentleman one simple question? Can he tell us how many police there are actually available now in Kano and district and whether he is satisfied that the number is adequate?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I cannot say exactly how many police are there, but there are also troops who have been flown in and we are satisfied that the number is at present sufficient.

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Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Nobody: 3:09pm On Jul 30, 2013
Liverpoolfc:
sincerly, you are sick. Psychiatry hospital will help you, pls dont go to general hospital cos you are in the latent phase of mental confusion. Take your medications before typing next time. Take my advise or leave it, it will worsen to manifest phase were ever one will know you are abnormal.


You need to be put down like a dog. Better still, you can jump in a dam nearest to your enclave. I stand by whatever I wrote.
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Nobody: 3:10pm On Jul 30, 2013
Bigcake: Small ediot, do u knw dat u cld arrested for defaming a sitting President? If u r idle go get someting doing before ur mouth throws u into jail.


F00lish boy. Joke of the century on display. I have the right to expression. Arindin jati jati
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Nobody: 3:16pm On Jul 30, 2013
francisbiz:
Shut up!
You all want to drag Ibos into this. Every other tribe oppressed by the hausa/fulani Islamist tribal-sadists wants Ibos to fight for them.Boko haram have killed yorubas, urhobos, ijaws, and edos and they are all waiting for the Ibos to fight for them; shame on these weak tribes that are waiting to lure Ibos to fight for them.
Ibos are wiser.


smh

sometimes I wonder whether it's the same blood that flows through normal humans that goes through the bodies of dolts like you and Dayokanu.Why must every freaking thing be tribalized?! Who wants who to fight for who? where do you and your bandwagon of dunces come up with these baseless statements from? How does one tribe "fighting" for another solve the threat to national peace that our dear country faces?

I am actually looking for the right title to crown your foolishness...

Actually, you sound like a minor so let me not waste my time!
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Samanthawebb: 3:18pm On Jul 30, 2013
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Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Yujin(m): 4:14pm On Jul 30, 2013
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bornosheikh: No be today...See Oyinbo discuss locals killing southerners in 1952

Surprising points :

1) Population of the North = 17 million
2) Oyinbo stated the 'economic importance' of keeping the three regions together (at all costs mentality)
3) Workers within the Kano native administration were armed and took part in these riots
4) Attacks took place in 'strangers quarters = sabon gari', so local youths went and attacked southerners.
5) Oyinbo was concerned that the attackers had police protection. SMH.
6) Never trust a Cracker

Same ish, different year

NIGERIA (KANO RIOTS)
HC Deb 20 May 1953 vol 515 cc2082-5 2082

§ The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:

80. Mrs. WHITE

To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies what information he has about the recent disturbances at Kano; and if he is satisfied that proper arrangements are made for the holding of meetings by persons who do not necessarily share the views of the ruling authorities.

§ The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. Henry Hopkinson)

With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and the permission of the House, I will now answer Question No. 80.

Serious rioting, the exact origins of which are not yet clearly established, broke out at Kano on 16th May, after the Native Authority had cancelled all permits for political meetings in view of prevailing tension. The rioting was largely confined to the strangers' quarter outside the city walls and did not spread to other parts of the Region. Originally the main participants in the riots appear to have been lawless hooligans, but the fighting soon took on an inter-tribal character, with Northerners fighting Southerners. Some of the rioters were equipped with firearms.

Following a curfew on 16th May the fighting died down but broke out anew on the following day. Substantial reinforcements of police and troops were flown to Kano that day and a state of emergency was proclaimed throughout the Region the following day, the 18th. My latest information is that the situation is now well in hand and the opposing factions have been separated by a barbed wire barrier. Casualties among the rioters according to latest reports total 43 killed and 204 injured. In addition three Native Authority police have been injured.

No troops have been used in action so far. Information is not available at present whether there has been significant 2083 damage to property. I am sure that the House will join with me in deploring this savage outbreak and in enjoining restraint on all political parties and groups in Nigeria in order that an opportunity may be given to repair the damage done to Nigerian unity by this useless violence.

As regards the second part of the Question, I would refer the hon. Lady to the answer given by my right hon. Friend on 18th March to the hon. Member for Leek (Mr. Harold Davies). But I should add that the Emergency Regulations made on 18th May apply inter alia to meetings and processions.

Mrs. White

Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us whether any special police precautions were taken before Sunday? Since notice of this meeting had been given and the meeting was cancelled and Kano is a well-known centre of communal dispute, I should like to know whether any special police precautions were taken in a situation which was likely to be troublesome. Secondly, as allegations are being made by the Action Group, who sent me a very long cable within the last half hour, that workers within the native administration were armed and took part in these riots, will the right hon. Gentleman ask his right hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary to see that an independent inquiry is made into the circumstances?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I have no information about special police precautions, but I have no doubt that the Lieutenant-Governor, who is extremely competent and who knows the situation there very well, will take all the necessary measures. With regard to the second part of that supplementary question, I have no information at the present time and I think that I had better await a further report before promising anything definite in the way of an inquiry.

§ Mr. J. Griffiths

Whilst agreeing at once with the Minister that we all deplore these riots and hope that there will be no repetition of them, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman that there should be a full inquiry into the immediate circumstances, particularly into the arrangements which are made before a meeting? Would the right hon. Gentleman find out whether it would be possible for the 2084 Governor to make an appeal, with which we would all like to be associated, to all leaders of parties in Nigeria at a time of political controversy to join together in appealing to their supporters to allow meetings to proceed peacefully without regrettable incidents of this kind? Do Her Majesty's Government propose at an early date to make a statement on the constitutional position and the arguments about it?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I will certainly make inquiries about police arrangements and inform the House as soon as I can. As to the constitutional issue, of course there is no doubt whatever that these events had their origin in political troubles and dissensions which we so much regret and which came to a head in March. I am hoping that as a result of my own visits there and the subsequent meetings of the two Southern Houses—the meeting of the Northern House is to take place today— and of the inquiries which have been going on, we shall be able to make a full statement of the intentions of Her Majesty's Government with regard to the constitutional issue in Nigeria before we rise for the Whitsun Recess.

§ Mr. Griffiths

Will the right hon. Gentleman undertake to see that an appeal is made to all political leaders to ensure that when they hold meetings the rival supporters do not come together?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

Certainly.

§ Mr. Tilney

Even though the recent riots tend to accelerate the centrifugal feelings of the three regions, will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the immense importance economically of keeping the three regions together and not letting them Balkanise themselves?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I am fully aware of all these matters and hope to cover them in my statement.

§ Mr. Hobson

Is the Minister satisfied that there is police protection for the Moslem majority in the North?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

There are 17 million people in the North of whom 13 million are Moslems.

§ Mr. Fenner Brockway

Will the right hon. Gentleman make not merely a Departmental inquiry but a very thorough, penetrating inquiry in view of the loss of 2085 life and certain very disturbing circumstances such as that the Lieutenant-Governor was warned five days before these riots and that members of the national administrative staff there had been given special leave so that they might attack a meeting which was being held?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

As soon as we have further information on these matters I have undertaken to inform the House, and I shall certainly do so. I am not aware of the fact that members of the administration were given special leave.

§ Mr. Fenner Brockway

I have had very definite information.

§ Mr. Alport

In view of the fact that Her Majesty's Government maintain strict impartiality in these matters, will my right hon. Friend ensure that the ex parte statements that have been made in various quarters of this House are not given more weight than they deserve?

§ Sir H. Williams

On a point of order. We have now exceeded Question Time by 35 minutes. Can we have the Ballot?

§ Mr. Speaker

Thanks for this info. I really have been looking for details of this particular riot (1953). Now I see more things. Can you kindly give me a link to where I can get more info?
@topic, how come there's yet to be another medium to corroborate this vampirish act?


I am grateful to the hon. Member for his assistance.

Mr. Dugdale

May I ask the right hon. Gentleman one simple question? Can he tell us how many police there are actually available now in Kano and district and whether he is satisfied that the number is adequate?

§ Mr. Hopkinson

I cannot say exactly how many police are there, but there are also troops who have been flown in and we are satisfied that the number is at present sufficient.

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Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by francisbiz: 5:35pm On Jul 30, 2013
ekwah:


smh

sometimes I wonder whether it's the same blood that flows through normal humans that goes through the minds of dolts like you and Dayokanu.
Why must every freaking thing be tribalized?! Who wants who to fight for who? where do you and your bandwagon of dunces come up with this baseless statements from? How does one tribe "fighting" for another solve the threat to national peace that our dear country faces?

I am actually looking for the right title to crown your foolishness...

Actually, you sound like a minor so let me not waste my time!
Don't jump into matters at the middle, read from the beginning. I know you have freedom to shower people with avalanche of abuses, yet am not bothered. I just replied to a comment by a nairalander, this was his statement :
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Osiris.211: 10:26pm On Jul 29

dayokanu:
MASSOB must get into action now.
They should stop organising gyrations in Onitsha and face real issues affected Ibos in the country



Those cowards are only good at quietly burying their brothers killed by boko boys while the internet warriors rants all day long.
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by ZACHIE: 6:30pm On Jul 30, 2013
So much under-reporting about the magnitude of these blasts.
The stories i am hearing are horrific, to say the least
Re: Bomb Blasts In Sabon Gari, Kano State by Sulhupeace: 7:40pm On Jul 30, 2013
FOLYKAZE:


Shut the fvck up

Ramadan is not stopping islamist from been violent. Maybe what you heard from your muslim neighbourhood is basic form of taqiyya : the islamic doctrine of promoting gospel through deceit and lies.

There is no political affliction in this. It is islam and boko haram.

The pakistani car bombing that happened just few hours ago should be a reasonable sign that Islam and Ramadan have nothing to do with violence.......islam, ramadan and violence is the trinity of mohamed.

Shut up, a foolish man who sound idiotic. Are u even a xtrian. Using all these defamatory terms will not change the basic fact that Islam forbids violent. It's ur type that constitute the boko haram. Idiot, a pegan claiming to be a christian.

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