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Kaduna State government assured on Thursday that migrants sighted at Kagarko Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday were transiting herders and not bandits.
Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, made the clarification in a statement issued on Thursday in Kaduna.
“Security agencies have confirmed to the Kaduna State government that a group of migrating persons sighted around Tafa village in Kagarko Local Government Area was a band of travelling herders.
“This followed several distress calls from citizens on the movement of perceived bandits in the Lambata-Kabbo area of Tafa village, in Kagarko Local Government Area.
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The Kaduna State government says the persons intercepted by the military in Tafa village in Kagarko Local Government Area of the state were not bandits but harmless migrating herders.
According to the government, the herders were moving from Dobi in Gwagwalada (FCT) and Gawu-Babangida, Lambata (Niger State) to their original stations in Jos and Bauchi.
The state commissioner for Internal Security and Homeland Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, made the clarification in a statement on Thursday.
The persons intercepted by the military in Tafa village in Kagarko Local Government Area
This followed anxiety in the state that the herders were a new group of bandits moving into Kaduna.