Adamawa State Commissioner of Police comes under criticism for alleging no deaths records in Kodomun Village Attack + Video

The Adamawa State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Ghazzali has been criticised over his comment and handling of the Fulani herdsmen attacks on Kodomun, following the discovery of eight more corpses.

Youths from Kodomun who brought out the corpses of the slain members of the community from the bush said, the recovery of the additional bodies had raised the death toll from the attacks  to 30.

The incident, came on the day the Adamawa State Deputy Governor, ENgineer MArtins Babale visited the paramount ruler of the area, the Hama Bata, HRH Alhamdu Teneke, and held a security meeting with him at his palace with other service chiefs in the state in attendance.
Ghazzali, who visited the area on Monday shortly after the attacks by herdsmen, had reportedly claimed no life was lost.
Ghazzali’s denial of any casualty resulting from the attacks, while addressing journalists, after the security meeting, elicited anger from those present at the palace.
Ghazzali explained that his refusal to deploy policemen to Kodomun, which had come under attacks, from Fulani herdsmen, earlier on Friday and Saturday, before that of Monday was done so as not to make him look like “taking sides”

He said, “My men were on the ground. We would not risk our men to be there just to give security to one side so that the other side will not think we have taken side with one side.

“There are two different people involved in these clashes: the herdsmen and the farmers. And we have to be very careful in handling such type of communal clashes.”

It was, however, the police commissioner’s insistence that no life was lost in the Monday attacks which sparked the uproar.

The angry youths who threatened to unleash mayhem in the aftermath of his comment were dissuaded from their action by the elders in the palace.

The monarch, who said his people had been killed in the attacks, challenged the security chiefs to visit Kodomun, to find out for themselves if indeed there were “no deaths”.

He said, “A lot of people have been killed. Today they would go and see for themselves the corpses of those slain in the attacks some of which they would find in the town and those yet to be brought in lying in the bush.”

But Martins Babale, who represented the state governor, distanced the state government from the utterance of the police commissioner, saying” This is his own opinion. His professional opinion.”

Babale said he would visit the razed community after the military might have combed the area and recovered the corpses of those  killed in the attacks. See video interview after cut
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***GRAPHIC PHOTOS*** from Attack on Kodomun Village of Demsa - Adamawa State

These photos are from the recent attack n Kodomun Community in Demsa Local Government of Adamawa State where armed Fulani herdsmen razed down  majority of the settlement and killed mostly children and Elderly who were unable to run for there dear lives. The death toll is said to rise to a bout 30 persons now.
more graphic photos after the cut

MECCA STAMPEDED: Panti Zing and Amirul Hajj of Adamawa State feared dead

As reported by the nation

Mecca, Medina, Mina and allied sacred cities are only among the privileged few, among the globe’s holiest religious destinations, to which pilgrims flock every year.  Even if the whole of the pilgrim population were to perish, that calamity would still not dull these cities’ appeal.  Faith, after all, is a thing of the mind.

Besides, by Islamic belief, dying in Mecca during pilgrimage is religious bliss; for to the deceased would come additional blessings the living cannot boast, as (s)he enters Al-Jannah a privileged soul indeed.  But it was never conceived as being crushed by cranes or being squashed in stampedes.

Which is why the Saudi authorities must take the blame for these twin-tragedies; and must wake up to their responsibilities.

By Allah, Nigeria has paid dearly for these man-made errors, in lost lives and crushed limbs.  From the stampede, no fewer than 56 Nigerians — and still counting — out of a casualty figure of 769 so far have perished, many of them the cream of their generation.

The morbid list: Justice Abdulkadir Jega, presiding judge, Court of Appeal, Abuja, and brother to Prof. Attahiru Jega, former INEC chairman, Justice Musa Hassan Alkali, another Court of Appeal judge, Alhaji Abbas Ibrahim, the Panti Zing (traditional ruler of Zing, in Adamawa State) and Amirul Hajj (leader) of the Adamawa delegation, with two of his four wives, Prof. Tijani Abubakar El-Miskin, the famed Islamic scholar, Hajiya Bilikisu Yusuf, former editor of defunct Citizen magazine.  And to think of the fate of Alhaji Bello Gidan-Hamma, former caretaker chairman of Illela Local Government of Sokoto State, with himself, mother, stepmother and two wives perishing in the stampede!

Nigerian Army surprises wounded Soldiers in Yola !

The Chief of Army Staff  Major-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai celebrated the Sallah Eid-il-Kabir festivities with wounded troops of the Nigerian army in Yola yesterday 24th September, 2015. The Chief of Army Staff was represented by the Brigade Commander, 23 Armoured Brigade Col. Abba Poopola who was in company of other Army officers at the Military Hospital Yola, where food and drinks were served to the Wounded Soldiers and their families.

Speaking further, the Brigade Commander said the Chief of Army Staff sent money and a cow for the Sallah celebration and urged the soldiers to celebrate life since they were among st the living.

Beneficiaries expressed their gratitude saying this was the first of its kind ever given to them in their long years of service and were grateful to the Chief or army Staff, Brigade Commander as well as the hospital attendants
see more photos after the cut