Some workers of a blacksmith store person accused the chairperson of Tudun Wada Local Government Area of Kano State, Sa’adatu Salisu, of starring thugs to demolish the workshop, during which 1 idiosyncratic was changeable and respective others were injured.
The section authorities ordered the demolition of structures impeding drainage, but the workers said their store was not 1 of them.
One of the workers, Musa Abdulmumin, told reporters astatine the constabulary office successful Kano that they had reported the incidental to the constabulary for probe to avert further violence.
“The chairperson of Tudun Wada came with a radical of hunters to the store and started beating us. I sustained wounded connected my hand. She ordered the shooting of our master, the proprietor of the workshop, aft she demolished the workshop,” Mr Abdulmumin said.
Another worker, Mustapha Bashir, said they were moving nether a impermanent structure erstwhile the assembly chairperson and respective equipped thugs invaded the workshop.
“She ordered the constabulary orderly to sprout our manager, and a stray slug deed my hand. We person reported the lawsuit to the constabulary and we are waiting for their action,” helium told reporters.
Suwidi Umar, the store owner, said the demolition has made his implicit 64 workers jobless.
He further alleged that the section authorities chairperson wanted him killed, but did not supply reasons wherefore helium believed so.
Mr Umar said the section authorities chairperson ordered the demolition of the store connected 28 August, contempt the tract technologist noting that the store is 5 metres distant from the planned drainage.
Mr Umar said helium built the store successful 1988 and it was certified successful 1990. He said the section authorities had made respective attempts to demolish it since Ms Salisu was appointed the chairperson.
Chairperson of Tudun Wada Local Government Area of Kano State, Sa’adatu Salisu“When she arrived astatine the workshop, she was shouting astatine the apical of her dependable and abusing the tract engineer, asking wherefore our store is not portion of the properties to beryllium demolished. We ne'er talked to her.
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“When the tract technologist publically briefed her that the store gathering is metres distant from the project, she nodded and near the country but aboriginal returned precocious evening with dozens of equipped thugs and started beating my workers”, Mr Umar said.
Ms Salisu didn’t respond to telephone calls and substance messages connected Thursday greeting and day asking for her remark connected the development.
The constabulary spokesperson successful Kano, Abdullahi Kiyawa, said immoderate suspects had been arrested an probe into the incidental was underway.
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