[b]Post-elThe mass killing and destruction of property during the post-election violence in the North have been attributed to the failure of the Police to effectively intervene.

Igbo residents in Kano State accused security agencies, particularly the Police, of siding with the perpetrators of the violence, mostly “local terrorists, militants and unemployed youths” who were allegedly sponsored by politicians.

Ohaneze Ndigbo, the umbrella union of Igbo, Kano State branch, said in its memorandum to the Post-Election Violence Panel of Inquiry, that non-indigenes were subjected to harrowing experience during the crisis.

It expressed dismay over what it termed open display of bias and partisanship by security operatives.

The group estimated that the loss by the non-indigenes, particularly the Igbos, was  about N1.7billion.

It called for  the overhaul of the Police.

The group, in the memorandum by its Chairman and President-General, Leaders of Ethnic Communities Resident in Kano, Chief Tobias Michael Idika, gave detail of the killings and wanton destruction of  property.

It alleged that the mayhem was pre-meditated, saying from the utterances of politicians and the misguided youths, the conclusion was obvious.

The group accused officials of the state’s shariah implementing agency who they described as the Hisbah militants of perpetrating violence and acts of lawlessness against the non-natives before the post-election crisis.

It said there were instances where the police allegedly acted as collaborators in the violence, adding that security personnel, prompted by tribal and religious parochialism, sometime saw the hoodlums as brothers.

“They also see their ‘cause’ as a common ‘cause’. Sometimes some victims would run to the police for protection and they would chase them back to their predators. Sometimes you see the police themselves chanting “Sai Buhari” and you are confused, as you cannot know which is which again.

“So, here, we suggest that policemen and women should be posted to areas different from their tribal base and there they should be made to know that their allegiance is towards the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“These misguided youths thus vented their spleen on unsuspecting innocent citizens —especially Christians and non-natives. Houses were burnt together with the movable properties therein. Human lives were snuffed out as if human lives are no longer worth a penny.

“The modus operandi of the hoodlums is that they would move from one home to another in search of the igbos and other non-natives in places like Zango, Dakata, Badawa, Naibawa, Gingiyu, Hotoro Quarters,Ungwar Uku, Kurna Asabe Quarters, Brigade, Panshekara and B.U.K old and new sites located at Kabuga and Rijar Zaki  respectively.

“At Zango, characteristically, these hoodlums moved from one premises to the other. When they came to an apartment occupied by an Igbo or any other non-natives they would pack out the moveable properties, loot some valuable ones and burnt down the rest. If they can lay hands on the non-natives they would either kill or maim such non-natives.
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