The Commissioner, Kaduna State Police Command, Ahmad Abdulrahman, said Governor Nasir el-Rufai lied in his account of the killings that took place in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state earlier in the month.
The CP stated this on Thursday when he spoke with newsmen on the claims by El-Rufai on the casualty figure and the ethnic tribe affected in the crisis between the Adara and Fulani in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state.
Abdulrahman said the governor was not truthful when he claimed that the Fulani ethnic group was the only one affected by the killing.
He also said he advised the governor against releasing any figure for those killed during the crisis.
He said: “I told the governor that figures in a crisis of this magnitude should be left (unquoted) until all investigations have been concluded in all the areas where information is coming from, are covered.
“You cannot come up with a figure, otherwise you will quote a particular figure now and quote another later.
“This is what is happening now.
“As far as the police are concerned, we are still investigating and the investigation is ongoing.
“We are working on three prominent theories.
“First is that unknown gunmen, believed to be Fulani, attacked the Adara people and escaped in the night on 11 February.
“The DPO in charge of the area immediately mobilised his men to the area and combed the bushes in search of the perpetrators in the middle of the night.
“It was there that they started seeing the carnage.
“Unfortunately, the Adara natives went to the Fulani communities and carried out a reprisal.
“However, we have arrested one of the suspected Fulani that attacked the Adara people.”