The Human Rights Network, HRN, Nigeria, has petitioned the Kano State Police Command, demanding a thorough investigation into the alleged attack of some factory workers by thugs in Tudunwada Local government area of the state.
The Local government chairperson, Hajia Sa’adaatu Yusha’u, who was alleged to have mobilized the thugs to carry out the attack, had already been invited by the police command to give account of what transified on the fateful day.
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The Human Rights Network in a petition with reference number HRN/NPC/GEN/V.V192, dated 4th August 2025, addressed to the Kano Command Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Bakori, with a title, “Appeal for Intervention/Investigation”, urged the CP to conduct a thorough investigation on what they term, “nefarious activities of the council chairperson”,
The Petition which was signed by the Country Director of the Human Rights Network and also a Consultant, Comrade A.A Haruna Ayagi said, one Mallam Suwidi Umar, a resident of Kofar Yamma Unguwar Rariya Quarters, Tudunwada local government made complaint against the the council chairperson.
According to him, the said Sa’adatu Yushau used her capacity as chairperson of the local government on 29 August 2025 led some armed thugs and political hooligans welding dangerous arms to attack him and his workers.
The Petition which was sighted by our reporter read in part, “Sa’adatu Salisu Yushau using her capacity as chairperson on 29 August 2025 led some dangerous thugs and political hooligans welding dangerous arms to attack us and my workmen and apprentice at my workplace at Kofar Gari thereby causing us serious injuries and the destruction of our properties worth millions of Naira”.
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The Petitioner said the chairperson was trying to force him and his workers to vacate the place which had been given to him by the same local government in 1999.
The Human Rights Network said that the actions of the chairperson has caused Suwidi Umar and his workers suffering and untold hardship which needs to be addressed by the poice.
“We demand thorough investigation and prosecution into the matter to forestall further assault and to seek justice for the aggrieved persons”.
Speaking to newsmen on Friday, the Chairman, International Human Rights Commission, Nigeria office, Idi Haruna Ali, said they have visited the scene of the attacks and gathered enough information including that of eye witnesses accounts and also the evidence of the wound on the victims.
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He said, “Some of those who sustained injuries were from gun bullets while others were attacked with other local weapons, while their properties were destroyed.
“The information we gathered was that the chairperson ordered that a particular structure owned by the victims be removed and they refused on her way back from an event thugs and political hooligans attacked them”.
