The Kaduna State Security Council has warned that felony components masquerading as protesters is not going to be spared, following a evaluate of the present safety scenario within the state.
In a press release on Saturday, the Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, mentioned the Council introduced that unverified processions had been prohibited on account of public security and safety considerations within the state.
The transfer, the assertion famous, comes after intelligence revealed that criminals had been utilizing real protests as a canopy to unleash terror and loot properties, with the goal of plunging the state into chaos and anarchy.
It added that the council acknowledged residents’ basic rights to freedom of expression and meeting however emphasised that safety forces wouldn’t allow criminals to make the most of these rights.
The council urged residents to watch the 6 pm to eight am curfew and report any suspicious exercise to the Security Operations Room, including that the event was seen as a bid to keep up legislation and order within the state, following current incidents of violence and unrest.
The council assured residents of its dedication to defending lives and properties and vowed to take decisive motion in opposition to anybody discovered perpetrating violence or criminality throughout the state.
The assertion learn, “The Kaduna State Security Council, underneath the management of Governor Uba Sani, has reviewed the current safety scenario arising from the prevailing 6 pm to eight am curfew, and different points pertaining to public security.
“Based on this evaluate, the Security Council hereby proclaims that felony components disguising as protesters, with the intent to generate unrest within the state, is not going to be spared.
“The Kaduna State Security Council acknowledges the elemental rights of residents to freedom of expression, lawful meeting and different constitutional rights enshrined within the 1999 Constitution as amended.
“Nevertheless, the safety forces can not allow a scenario whereby criminals masquerade as protesters to loot and vandalize private and non-private properties and unleash terror on harmless residents, as skilled on the first and fifth of August 2024.
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“Processions not verified and cleared by security agencies therefore remain prohibited in light of the public security considerations highlighted.”
It added, “The ugly occasions of 1st and fifth August 2024 are clear indicators that criminals are pursuing an agenda to plunge the state into chaos, and are able to camouflage these designs with in any other case real protests.
“Available intelligence from the reviewed interval additionally reveals the grim focus of those forces in herding youngsters and impressionable people into their darkish schemes.
“The penalties of those plans, if allowed to flourish, are higher imagined.
“The Kaduna State Government and safety forces is not going to stand by and permit an anti-state agenda to run unchecked. It bears reiterating that criminals masquerading as protesters is not going to be permitted to wreak havoc.
“Finally, citizens are enjoined to continue to observe the 6 pm to 8 am curfew and report any incendiary activity to the Security Operations Room on 09034000060; 08170189999.”
PUNCH Online reviews that the protesters regrouped and marched by means of the town’s main streets, waving Russian flags.
The growth compelled the state authorities to slam a 24-hour curfew on Kaduna and Zaria Metropolitan cities on Monday.
However, the 24-hour curfew was reviewed to take impact from 6 pm to eight am day by day to permit residents to maneuver freely and perform their authentic actions.