The spokesman of the Jigawa State Police Command and a Superintendent of Police, SP Lawan Shiisu, made this known in a statement.
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The crises which erupted about four years ago led to loss of many lives and wanton destruction of property worth millions of naira.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Lawan Shiisu, confirmed the incident in a statement issued to newsmen in Dutse, on Saturday.
The state Governor, Francis Nwifuru, disclosed this Thursday in his home in Oferekpe Agbaja, Izzi Local Government Area.
Sequel to the near state of total peace and harmony being envisioned by his administration in both Ifon and Orolu communities in the wake of their recent communal clash, the Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has directed that the hitherto 24-hour curfew imposed on the two warring communities be reduced to 12 hours.
The state Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, gave the advice on Monday in Osogbo following a 24-hour curfew imposed by the state government on the communities.
This was due to the ongoing communal clash between Hausa and Yoruba in the area, a development that has resulted in no fewer than 20 deaths and destruction of properties.
The Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 30 suspects and recovery of dangerous weapons in connection with the recent Tigno and Wadugu communal crises in Lamurde Local Government Area.
The Police in Adamawa on Wednesday confirmed that one person died and many injured in a communal clash in Lafiya area of Lamurde Local Government of the state.
The development has been confirmed by the Taraba State Police Command
The Senior Special Assistant on Communications to the Governor, Dr. Muideen Akorede, who disclosed this during a post State Executive Council meeting, said the SEC expressed concern over the unnecessary and sad clash between the two communities that had led to loss of lives and properties
The two communities, which were parts of Ekiti East Local Government Area before the recent creation of additional Local Council Development Areas in the state, are at loggerheads over the citing of a local government secretariat on a parcel of land claimed by the two communities as theirs
Alhaji Sani Sale, the President of the Wukari Federation of Muslim Ummah, blamed the crisis on intolerance, saying that people must learn to tolerate one another for peace and stability
Though details of the cause of the skirmish were scanty as at the time of filing this report, a citizen reporter who hails from the town, told The Eagle Online that the clash started on Tuesday morning and was still raging
He said that the command had yet to know the cause of the clash, adding that no formal complaint had been made to any security agency on the clash
Informed police source told our correspondent that the incident took Alago people unaware as over 100 Tiv farmers reportedly armed to the teeth suddenly besieged the village, and started shooting
The clash, between the Fulani and Gwari ethnic stocks in Gwako, Gwagwalada Local Government Area over the weekend, affected 27 settlements and displaced over 1,500 persons